Invasive Outpatient Procedures in Reproductive Medicine

This text/atlas provides a variety of approaches to performing invasive office procedures in obstetrics and gynaecology. The analysis of each procedure covers such aspects as the background, indications, instrumentation and associated contradictions/complications. Divided into two sections - obstetrics and gynaecology - the text presents 16 frequently used invasive office procedures. Obstetrical procedures covered include amniocentesis, chorionic villus sampling, cordocentesis, embryology, shunt procedures, selective termination and multifoetal pregnancy reduction. Gynaecologic procedures covered include breast biopsy, hysteroscopy, colposcopy and cervical biopsy, LEEP/laser, oocyte retrieval/embryo transfer, vulvar biopsy and IUD insertion.