ACCURACY OF ULTRASONOGRAPHICALLY DETERMINED FETAL KIDNEY LENGTH IN ESTIMATING GESTATIONAL AGE COMPARED TO OTHER SONOLOGICAL PARAMETERS

Abstract

In 200 pregnant women obstetric sonography was performed without any complicated pregnancy to assess the efcacy of FKL as a parameter to compute the predicted gestational age. Gestational age ranges from 18 weeks to term. Patients with known LMP and normal menstrual cycle and without any exclusion criteria were included in the study. Fetal biometry was assessed incorporating BPD, HC, AC, FL and FKL. FKL was corresponded with other fetal biometric parameters and clinical gestational age. The correlation was seen to be signicant.