Estimating the proportion of all observed birth defects occurring in pregnancies terminated by a second-trimester abortion

Epidemiology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 866-871

  Svensson, Elisabeth ^a   Ehrenstein, Vera ^a   Nørgaard, Mette ^a   Bakketeig, Leiv Sigmund ^a   Rothman, Kenneth J ^a,b,c   Sørensen, Henrik Toft ^a   Pedersen, Lars ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL DEFECT; ADULT; ANENCEPHALUS; ANNULAR PANCREAS; ANOPHTHALMIA; ANUS ATRESIA; AORTA COARCTATION; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR SEPTAL DEFECT; BILE DUCT ATRESIA; BIRTH DEFECT; BLADDER EXSTROPHY; BONE DYSPLASIA; CHOANA ATRESIA; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CLEFT LIP; CLEFT PALATE; CLUBFOOT; CONGENITAL CATARACT; CONGENITAL GLAUCOMA; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONJOINED TWINS; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; DIAPHRAGM HERNIA; DOWN SYNDROME; DUODENUM ATRESIA; DUODENUM STENOSIS; EBSTEIN ANOMALY; EDWARDS SYNDROME; ENCEPHALOCELE; EPISPADIAS; ESOPHAGUS ATRESIA; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; FETUS MALFORMATION; GASTROSCHISIS; GENE DELETION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART SINGLE VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; HOLOPROSENCEPHALY; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYDRONEPHROSIS; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; HYPOPLASTIC RIGHT HEART SYNDROME; HYPOSPADIAS; KIDNEY AGENESIS; KIDNEY DYSPLASIA; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; LIVE BIRTH; LUNG VEIN DRAINAGE ANOMALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROCEPHALY; MICROPHTHALMIA; NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATION; OMPHALOCELE; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; PES EQUINOVARUS; POLYDACTYLY; POTTER SYNDROME; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRUNE BELLY SYNDROME; PULMONARY VALVE ATRESIA; PULMONARY VALVE STENOSIS; REGISTER; SECOND TRIMESTER ABORTION; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SITUS INVERSUS; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STILLBIRTH; SURVIVAL; SYNDACTYLY; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; TRICUSPID VALVE ATRESIA; TRICUSPID VALVE STENOSIS; TRISOMY 13; TURNER SYNDROME; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; DENMARK; INDUCED ABORTION; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ADULT; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; DENMARK; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PREVALENCE; REGISTRIES; STILLBIRTH;

EID: 84927760145     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: 15315487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000000163     Document Type: Article

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