| chorionic villus sampling safety. report of world health organization/euro meeting in association with the seventh international conference on early prenatal diagnosis of genetic diseases, tel-aviv, israel, may 21, 1994. | accumulated experience of 138,996 cases of chorionic villus sampling shows that chorionic villus sampling is a safe procedure with an associated fetal loss rate comparable to that of amniocentesis. the chorionic villus sampling registry shows that chorionic villus sampling is currently performed primarily between 9 and 12 weeks' gestation and carried no increased risk of limb reduction defects: the overall incidence of limb reduction defects after chorionic villus sampling is 5.2 to 5.7 per 10,0 ... | 1996 | 8633647 |