Mothers' adaptation to antenatal diagnosis of surgically correctable anomalies

Early Human Development

Volumn 82, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 649-653

  Aite, Lucia ^a   Zaccara, Antonio ^a   Nahom, Antonella ^a   Trucchi, Alessandro ^a   Iacobelli, Barbara ^a   Bagolan, Pietro ^a  

^a BAMBINO GESÙ CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Congenital malformations; Emotional reactions; Prenatal diagnosis

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL DEFECT; ADAPTATION; ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAPHRAGM HERNIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATION; EMOTION; FEMALE; FETUS MALFORMATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERVIEW; INTESTINE ATRESIA; MATERNAL AGE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ABNORMALITIES; ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; DUODENAL OBSTRUCTION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HERNIA, DIAPHRAGMATIC; HUMANS; INTESTINAL ATRESIA; MOTHERS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 33749064338     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2005.12.010     Document Type: Article

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