A survey of attitudes about maternal serum screening for fetal chromosome abnormalities in women 35 years of age and older

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 357-360

  Phillips, Owen P ^a,b   Seely, Linda ^a   Wan, Jim Y ^a   Wachtel, Stephen S ^a   Shulman, Lee P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Maternal serum screening; Prenatal diagnosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNIOCENTESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CHORION VILLUS SAMPLING; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MATERNAL AGE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRENATAL SCREENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AMNIOCENTESIS; ATTITUDE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHORIONIC VILLI SAMPLING; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MATERNAL AGE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, HIGH-RISK; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0032429737     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000020869     Document Type: Article

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