Parents' experiences of an abnormal ultrasound examination - Vacillating between emotional confusion and sense of reality

Reproductive Health

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

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

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHOROID PLEXUS TUMOR; CLEFT LIP; CONFUSION; DUODENUM ATRESIA; EMOTION; FEMALE; FETAL WELL BEING; FETUS; FETUS DEATH; FETUS DISEASE; GROUNDED THEORY; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPOPITUITARISM; INDUCED ABORTION; KIDNEY DYSPLASIA; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MULTIPLE MALFORMATION SYNDROME; OMPHALOCELE; PARENT COUNSELING; PARENTAL ATTITUDE; PES EQUINOVARUS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; TRISOMY 18; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 77953351245     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17424755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-4755-7-10     Document Type: Article

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