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Can fetal cranial circumference determine the cause and predict cephalopelvic disproportion?

O. Munteanu, L. Radulescu, A. T. Ispas, F. C. Cirstoiu, M. M. Cirstoiu


Abstract: This study was undertaken in order to evaluate if fetal cranial circumference can determine the cause and predict cephalopelvic disproportion (CPD). Methods. We retrospectively evaluated the medical records of 661 pregnant women who underwent Cesarean delivery due to CPD, at Bucharest Emergency University Hospital, from January 1st 2011 to January 1st 2012. Following the diagnostic codes three groups were formed - Group A - strictly maternal anomalies determined CPD, Group B - strictly fetal anomalies determined CPD and Group C, in which a single cause (fetal or maternal) could not be determined. Using One-Way ANOVA we have determined that the difference between the mean of the cranial circumference varies statistically among the three groups (p=0.023). Performing a canonical discriminant analysis a discriminant function, which can frame a patient into one of the three groups (A, B or C), based on the fetal cranial circumference, was extracted. Using a discriminant function, fetal cranial circumference can determine the cause (fetal, maternal or mixed anomalies) and predict CPD.
DOI:10.18643/gieu.2013.118

Keywords: cephalopelvic disproportion, fetal cranial circumference, discriminant function

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