Devastation and relief: Conflicting meanings of detected fetal anomalies

Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-5

  Britt, D W ^a   Risinger, S T ^b   Mans, M K ^b   Evans, M I ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; DEPRESSION; ECHOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; FETUS; FETUS MALFORMATION; FETUS MONITORING; GENETIC COUNSELING; GRIEF; HUMAN; MENTAL STRESS; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY REDUCTION, MULTIFETAL; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 0036304561     PISSN: 09607692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-0705.2002.00766.x     Document Type: Editorial

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