Multifetal pregnancy reduction: indications, technical aspects and psychological impact;Réduction embryonnaire : indications, techniques, impact psychologique

Presse Medicale

Volumn 37, Issue 2 PART 2, 2008, Pages 295-306

  Sentilhes, Loïc ^a   Audibert, François ^b   Dommergues, Marc ^c   Descamps, Philippe ^d   Frydman, René ^e   Mahieu Caputo, Dominique ^f  

^a HÔPITAL CHARLES NICOLLE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^c PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^d ANGERS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^e HÔPITAL ANTOINE BÉCLÈRE   (France)

^f Hopital Bichat   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DELIVERY; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PATIENT MONITORING; PERINATAL CARE; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREMATURITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; RISK REDUCTION; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SHORT SURVEY; TWINS; UTERINE CERVIX DILATATION; DECISION MAKING; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; METHODOLOGY; PREGNANCY; REVIEW; THERAPEUTIC ABORTION;

DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY REDUCTION, MULTIFETAL; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; PREMATURE BIRTH; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 41949112414     PISSN: 07554982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lpm.2007.05.016     Document Type: Short Survey

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