Risks of second-trimester amniocentesis: Why all the fuss 30 years later?

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 586-588

  Mennuti, Michael T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

AMNIOCENTESIS; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CHORION VILLUS SAMPLING; COUNSELING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EDITORIAL; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FETUS MALFORMATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SCREENING; GESTATIONAL AGE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; RISK; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; ULTRASOUND; FEMALE; HUMAN; PREGNANCY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; AMNIOCENTESIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; RISK;

EID: 42449132242     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0b013e318166eae6     Document Type: Editorial

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