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Background: Achieving an ideal method to assess the potential for fetal growth is an unfulfilled aspiration in our discipline, and imposes the need for individualized evaluation using new tools and integrated multi-parameters. Objectives: To evaluate correlation and to establish cephalic/abdominal/femoral (CAF) index reference values with gestational age (GA) and estimated fetal weight, in order to classify fetal growth evolution as adequate or not adequate for gestational age, and correlation with weight of the newborn at term. Patients and methods: 1 032 simple and not complicated pregnancies 12 to 38 weeks of gestation were studied at the Polyclinic Center of Valencia, Venezuela, between 2015-2017. Ultrasound measurements and fetal weight were estimated at 3-5 weeks intervals. Studied parameters were head circumference (HC), abdominal circumference (AC) and femur length (FL), integrat...