Understanding miscarriage or insensitive abortion: Time for more defined terminology?
A search of the two major journals of obstetrics and gynecology published in the United States has shown that the word abortion rather than miscarriage to describe early pregnancy loss is 6 times more likely to be used compared with most other English language journals over the last 5 years. The use...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | American journal of obstetrics and gynecology 1998-08, Vol.179 (2), p.397-398 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | A search of the two major journals of obstetrics and gynecology published in the United States has shown that the word
abortion rather than
miscarriage to describe early pregnancy loss is 6 times more likely to be used compared with most other English language journals over the last 5 years. The use of
miscarriage, with descriptive adjectives such as threatened, incomplete, and complete, is recommended and the term
delayed miscarriage is suggested in place of
missed abortion. (Am J Obstet Gynecol 1998;179:397-8.) |
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| ISSN: | 0002-9378 1097-6868 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/S0002-9378(98)70370-9 |