[Correlations between pregnancy pathology, study of the placenta, antenatal echography and examination of the product of conception in a series of 175 congenital malformations].

In order to verify the hypothesis that during pregnancy in a woman without peculiar history, signs could be discovered when the fetus is malformed we have reviewed the files of 175 women who had a malformed child and of 300 controls. All of these women had at least one clinical examination and one ultrasonographic examination during pregnancy. Two clinical symptoms were more often discovered in the mother of the malformed fetus (p less than 0.