title: [Selective abortion under sonographic control in multiple pregnancy].
abstract: Selective embryocide was performed at 9 weeks in a patient with a quadruplet pregnancy. No complications occurred and the patient was delivered of healthy triplets at 31 3/7 weeks of pregnancy. This procedure may be offered to patients with pregnancies with more than four embryos.
authors.affiliation: Frauenklinik des Solothurnischen Kantonsspitals Olten.
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Gigon
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Beck
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Schneider
mesh_terms: D000025:Abortion, Eugenic / Q000379:methods*; D000028:Abortion, Induced / Q000379:methods*; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005327:Fetal Resorption; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007247:Infertility, Female / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D011247:Pregnancy; D011261:Pregnancy Trimester, First; D011272:Pregnancy, Multiple; D011296:Prenatal Diagnosis / Q000379:methods*; D011783:Quadruplets; D014463:Ultrasonography / Q000379:methods*
vernacular_title: Selektiver Abort unter sonographischer Kontrolle bei einer Mehrlingsschwangerschaft.