[Validation of ultrasound diagnosis of fetal anomalies at a reference center in Pernambuco].

Objective: To validate ultrasound diagnoses of fetal anomalies made in a Fetal Medicine Center in Pernambuco.

Methods: A cross sectional study was performed to validate the diagnosis test, including all high risk pregnant women submitted to obstetrical morphological ultrasound at the 'Instituto de Medicina Integral Professor Fernando Figueira (I.M.

[Amniotic fluid volume associated with fetal anomalies diagnosed in a reference center in the Brazilian Northeast].

Purpose: to determine factors associated to amniotic fluid volume and frequencies of fetal anomalies, in a reference center in Pernambuco.

Methods: a transversal study performed in high-risk pregnant women submitted to obstetrical morphological ultrasound, from March 2002 to March 2006, at an institution from Recife, Pernambuco, Brasil. The intrauterine diagnosis was confirmed after birth.