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Invasive fetal assessment in the antepartum period
J A Copel1, M T Cullen, P A Grannum
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics of North America
|March 1, 1990
Abstract:
Access to the fetus as a true patient is a recent development in maternal-fetal medicine. We review the major invasive techniques currently available for establishing diagnoses and providing treatments to the fetus. These include fetoscopy, fetal blood sampling, fetal transfusions, and fetal shunts. Indications, techniques, and complications are discussed.