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Case Reports
. 2009 Jul 22:2:8330.
doi: 10.4076/1757-1626-2-8330.

Early prenatal diagnosis of conjoined twins at 7 weeks and 6 days' gestation with two-dimensional Doppler ultrasound: a case report

M Zeki Taner  1 , Mertihan Kurdoglu, Cagatay Taskiran, Zehra Kurdoglu, Ozdemir Himmetoglu, Sevim Balci
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Early prenatal diagnosis of conjoined twins at 7 weeks and 6 days' gestation with two-dimensional Doppler ultrasound: a case report

M Zeki Taner et al. Cases J. .

Abstract

This case report presents the prenatal diagnosis of conjoined twins at 7 weeks and 6 days' gestation according to the last menstrual period and 6 weeks and 4 days' gestation according to crown-rump length in a 32-year-old Turkish woman, using two-dimensional Doppler ultrasound. The twins were fused to each other at the thoracic region (thoracopagus). In the light of previous reports of conjoined twins this appears to be one of the earliest prenatally diagnosed cases in the medical literature.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
A wide fetal pole with bifid appearance and two yolk sacs in a unique gestational sac raise suspicion about the presence of conjoined twins with different fetal cardiac activities.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
CRL (crown-rump length) measurements of conjoined twins.
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