Late pregnancy termination within a legislated medical environment

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 337-341

  Dickinson, Jan E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b KING EDWARD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fetal abnormality; Late abortion; Legislation; Misoprostol

Indexed keywords

ABORTIVE AGENT; MISOPROSTOL;

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS MALFORMATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INDUCED ABORTION; KARYOTYPE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; MOTHER FETUS RELATIONSHIP; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; LEGAL APPROACH;

ABORTION, EUGENIC; ABORTION, INDUCED; ADULT; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 4444231169     PISSN: 00048666     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-828X.2004.00252.x     Document Type: Review

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