Though the disorders that fetoscopy now helps diagnose are few, and quite rare, researchers expect to use it eventually to detect such maladies as albinism (lack of pigment) and .
Now comes fetoscopy, a technique that takes over where amniocentesis leaves off by allowing direct examination of the fetus.
Once amniocentesis determines that a woman is carrying a male child, doctors use a technique called fetoscopy to obtain a sample of the baby's blood.