Information for better or for worse: Interviews with parents when their foetus was found to have choroid plexus cysts at a routine econd trimester ultrasound

Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 48-57

  Larsson, Anna Karin ^a,b   Crang Svalenius, Elizabeth ^b   Dykes, Anna Karin ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

anxiety; information; Qualitative interviews; second trimester ultrasound; soft markers

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHOROID PLEXUS; CHOROID PLEXUS TUMOR; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CYST; ECHOGRAPHY; EXAMINATION; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMAN; INFORMATION; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PARENT; PARENT COUNSELING; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ATTITUDE; CHOROID DISEASES; CHOROID PLEXUS; CYSTS; DISCLOSURE; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MATERNAL-FETAL RELATIONS; PARENTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD;

EID: 67651161931     PISSN: 0167482X     EISSN: 17438942     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01674820802621775     Document Type: Article

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