Pregnancy loss rate following routine genetic amniocentesis at Wellington Hospital

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 117, Issue 1191, 2004, Pages

  Sangalli, Michel ^a   Langdana, Fali ^a   Thurlow, Claire ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNIOCENTESIS; ARTICLE; BIRTH DEFECT; FEMALE; FETUS DEATH; FETUS WASTAGE; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; KARYOTYPE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEW ZEALAND; NEWBORN DEATH; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TRISOMY 21; TWIN PREGNANCY; FETUS DISEASE; GENETICS; INFANT MORTALITY; KARYOTYPING; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; AMNIOCENTESIS; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; FETAL DISEASES; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; KARYOTYPING; NEW ZEALAND; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME;

EID: 2342545506     PISSN: 11758716     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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