Discordant noninvasive prenatal testing results in a patient subsequently diagnosed with metastatic disease

What's already known about this topic? Noninvasive prenatal testing for detection of trisomies 21, 18, and 13 is clinically available and is reported to have a false positive rate of 1% or less This technology utilizes massively parallel shotgun sequencing of cell‐free DNA, of maternal and placental origin, present in maternal plasma What does this study add? Unexplained abnormal noninvasive prenatal testing results should prompt consideration of a maternal source of the abnormal cell‐free DNA, such as malignancy