Amniocentesis Health Article

Books

Rothman, Barbara Katz. The Tentative Pregnancy. New York: Viking Press, 1986.

Merkatz, Irwin R., and Joyce E. Thompson. "Prenatal Diagnosis" in New Perspectives on Prenatal Care. New York: Elsevier, 1990.

Wilson, J. Robert, and Elsie Reid Carrington. "Amniocentesis" in Obstetrics and Gynecology. St. Louis: Mosby Year Book. 1991.

Periodicals

Baird, P.S., I.M.L. Yee, and A.D. Sadovnick. "Population-Based Study of Long-Term Outcomes after Amniocentesis." The Lancet 344, October 22, 1994, pp. 1134-36.

Boss, Judith A. "First Trimester Prenatal Diagnosis: Earlier Is Not Necessarily Better." Journal of Medical Ethics 20, 1994, pp. 146-51.

Nicolaides, Kypros, Maria de Lourdes Brizot, Fatima Patel, and Rosalinde Snijders. "Comparison of Chorionic Villus Sampling and Amniocentesis for Fetal Karyotyping at 10-13 Weeks' Gestation." The Lancet 344, August 13, 1994, pp. 435-39.

Organizations

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
Address: 409 12th Street
Washington, DC 20024