creators_name: Ugwu, AC
creators_name: Nwobi, IC
creators_name: Eteudo, AN
creators_name: Ovuoba, KN
creators_id: tonybullng@yahoo.ca
editors_name: Kakkilaya, Srinivas
editors_id: Kakkilaya BS
type: journale
datestamp: 2008-09-19 13:59:35
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:57:11
metadata_visibility: show
title: The Effect Of Normocephalic Foetal Skull On Foetal Dating Using Biparietal Diameter
ispublished: pub
subjects: OJHAS
full_text_status: public
keywords: Foetus, Mathematical Correction, Biparietal Diameter, Cephalic Index, Ultrasonography
abstract: The study was conducted to determine the desirability or otherwise of mathematically correcting every normal foetal head shape to an ideal shape prior to dating using the biparietal diameter (BPD). Transabdominal Sonography was performed in 118 pregnant women in their second- and third- trimesters. The BPDs and fronto-occipital diameters (FODs) were measured. A study of 100 foetuses with normal head shapes was used to derive in this environment, a regression equation for an area corrected BPD (BPDa): BPDa = - 2. 853 + 0.483 (BPD + FOD). The BPDa of 18 foetuses with normal head shapes,  were computed with this equation. Z test was performed to compare the mean BPD and Mean BPDa. Z statistic showed no significant difference (p>0.5) between BPDa and BPD in this group of foetuses with normal head shapes. There is no need to mathematically correct normocephalic foetal head shapes to ideal shapes before dating using the BPDs
date: 2008-07-21
date_type: published
publication: Online Journal of Health and Allied Sciences
volume: 7
number: 2
publisher: Dr. B.S. Kakkilaya
refereed: TRUE
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citation:   Ugwu, AC and Nwobi, IC and Eteudo, AN and Ovuoba, KN  (2008) The Effect Of Normocephalic Foetal Skull On Foetal Dating Using Biparietal Diameter.  [Journal (On-line/Unpaginated)]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/6201/1/2008-2-5.pdf