Comparison between 20G and 22G needle for second trimester amniocentesis in terms of technical aspects and short-term complications

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 761-765

  Athanasiadis, Apostolos P ^a,b   Pantazis, Konstantinos ^a   Goulis, Dimitrios G ^a   Chatzigeorgiou, Konstantinos ^a   Vaitsi, Violeta ^a   Assimakopoulos, Efstratios ^a   Tzevelekis, Filippos ^a   Tsalikis, Tryfon ^a   Bontis, John N ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b Prenatal Diagnostic Center of Thessaloniki   (Greece)

Author keywords

Amniocentesis; Amniocentesis complications; Amniocentesis needle

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNIOCENTESIS; AMNION FLUID; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEEDLE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; UTERUS BLEEDING; VAGINA BLEEDING;

ADULT; AMNIOCENTESIS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; NEEDLES; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 67749091278     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: 10970223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.2283     Document Type: Article

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