Assessment of gestational maturity using a new fundal height measuring tape
Baeyertz, J.D.
New Zealand Medical Journal 96(746): 1059-1060
1983
ISSN/ISBN: 0028-8446 PMID: 6581413 Document Number: 217019
From a series of women with known conception dates, the 50th percentiles of their weekly fundal height measurements were used to calibrate a measuring tape. As a method of gestational assessment, the tape was found to be accurate to within two weeks of the exact dates in 79% of this control group, compared with 96% and 84% respectively using conventional crown rump length and biparietal diameter ultrasound techniques on these same patients.