Open AccessThe accuracy of 2D ultrasound prenatal sex determination
Author(s) -
BO Igbinedion,
Theophilus Oriazo Akhigbe
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
nigerian medical journal/nigerian medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2229-774X
pISSN - 0300-1652
DOI - 10.4103/0300-1652.103545
Subject(s) - medicine , pregnancy , feeling , obstetrics , anxiety , gynecology , ultrasound , psychology , psychiatry , social psychology , radiology , genetics , biology
Pregnant women have been curious about the sex of their unborn child. The advent of ultrasound, its application into medicine, and the revolutionary changes in its resolution and function has led to the ability to assign a sex to these unborn children, thereby allaying the anxiety of these women but with consequent emergent ethical, moral, psycho-social, and medico-legal issues. The objectives were to determine the accuracy of sonographic prenatal sex determination, perform binary classification test, and the impact it has, including mis-diagnosis.