Abstract

The need to determine the sex of the fetus in early pregnancy is usually based on medical indications for early implementation of appropriate therapeutic procedures, and is sometimes driven by parental curiosity. Medicine has made tremendous progress in early diagnosis of fetal sex in the last decades. The diagnostic methods described in the literature are characterized by varying degrees of accuracy, cost, and potential risk to the fetus. For these reasons, there is an ongoing debate about when and in which cases a particular method should be used. This paper presents an overview of the current methods of fetal sex determination.

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Title
Fetal sex identification in early pregnancy
Author
Borowski, Jacek 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Walaszczyk, Agata 2 ; Szczepańska-Przekota, Anna 3   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Bulsa, Marek 4   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Borowska, Julia 5 

1  Hospital Połczyn Zdrój, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Szpitalna 5, 78-320 Połczyn-Zdrój, Poland 
2  Midwife Hospital Połczyn Zdrój, Szpitalna 5, 78-320 Połczyn-Zdrój, Poland 
3  Koszalin University of Technology, Faculty of Economic Science, Kwiatkowskiego 6e, 75-343 Koszalin, Poland 
4  University of Szczecin, Institute of Sociology, Krakowska 71-79, 71-017 Szczecin, Poland 
5  University of Warmia and Mazury, School of Medicine, Warszawska 30, 10-082 Olsztyn, Poland 
Pages
18-25
Publication year
2024
Publication date
2024
Publisher
De Gruyter Poland
ISSN
24504637
e-ISSN
27196313
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21164/pomjlifesci.944
ProQuest document ID
3159418847
Copyright
© 2024. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.