Fetal Medicine Basic Science and Clinical Practice

This new book supplies the clinician with a one-source guide to all aspects of fetal medicine. Chapters cover strategies for embryonic and fetal diagnosis, monitoring, fetal therapy, management, and counseling, incorporating the most recent advances in techniques. FETAL MEDICINE also provides a section devoted to basic science, providing clear explanations of fetal physiology, embryology, and molecular biology.A comprehensive reference to all aspects of fetal medicine Focuses on the fetus as a patient, unlike other texts More detail than standard obstetric reference books Incorporates advances in the diagnosis of fetal abnormalities and their management Includes coverage of basic fetal physiology, embryology and molecular biology Offers confidence from a medicolegal point of view, so readers feel they won't misdiagnose/mismanage fetal abnormalityContributors are world class experts