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The author present contemporary methods for diagnosis of placenta praevia. He compare old methods as X-ray placentography, radioisotope placentography with using ultrasound to determine the location of placenta. Placenta praevia can be diagnosed prenatally using ultrasound through transabdominal, afterwards with transvaginal ultrasound.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Gynaecol Obstet
February 1981
Simple counting equipment and radioiodinated human serum albumin (131IHSA) were used to perform placental localization on 48 pregnant women with antepartum hemorrhage. The level of diagnostic accuracy of 85% compares favorably with more expensive methods. The false-negative diagnosis rate for the whole group was 4% and the false-positive diagnosis rate was 8%.
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