Fetal responses to inadvertent contact with the needle during amniocentesis

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 83-85

  Petrikovsky, Boris M ^a   Kaplan, Gary P ^b  

^a NORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amniocentesis; Needle contact; Spina bifida

Indexed keywords

AMNIOCENTESIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPLICATION; FETUS; FOOT; HUMAN; MENINGOMYELOCELE; NEEDLE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIDEOTAPE;

AMNIOCENTESIS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FETAL MOVEMENT; HUMAN; MENINGOMYELOCELE; NEEDLES; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 0028967680     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: 14219964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000264210     Document Type: Article

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