Association of breech presentation with fetal abnormalities

Aim: to study the association of fetal abnormalities associated with breech presentation. study design: descriptive/observational. setting: department of obstetrics and gynaecology unit 1,holy family hospital,rawalpindi. duration of study: one year from january 2005 to december 2005. methods: total 100 cases were taken. a specially designed proforma was used to collect data by nonrandom probability sampling. results: mean age of patients was found to be 28.4 years. regarding the gestational age 29% were preterm and 71% were term breeches. 65% had normal liquor volume,9% oligohydramnios,6% oligohydramnios with iugr and 3% with renal abnormalities,13% polyhydramnios. conclusion: breech presentation is quite common,major portion being term breech. there is a significant number of breech presentations associated with liquor volume abnormalities and a few cases were associated with fetal abnormalities.