Nonmedical fetal ultrasound - Why all the noise?

Birth

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-3

  Wax, Joseph R ^a,b   Pinette, Michael G ^b  

^a MMC OB GYN Associates   (United States)

^b MAINE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE ACT; MEDICAL PROFESSION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; ANXIETY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MOTHER; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SAFETY; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ANXIETY; CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY; DEVICE APPROVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MOTHERS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33745647923     PISSN: 07307659     EISSN: 1523536X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0730-7659.2006.00067.x     Document Type: Editorial

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