The fetal cheek-to-cheek diameter and abdominal circumference: are they correlated?

Abstract

The cheek-to-cheek diameter is significantly correlated to the abdominal circumference and the estimated fetal weight. However, the abdominal circumference has a tighter correlation with the glucose challenge test.

Fetal Growth Scans and Amniotic Fluid Assessments in Pregestational and Gestational Diabetes

“…Researchers have explored the use of other biometric parameters to measure fetal weight in the hopes of finding a better predictor for LGA and macrosomic infants These parameters include the measurement of abdominal fat thickness, subscapular fat thickness, thigh and upper arm fat areas (Nobile De Santis et al, ), and fetal cheek‐to‐cheek diameter (Kerrick et al, ). Other researchers measured fetal thigh soft‐tissue thickness (Scioscia et al, ).…”