[Management of the dead fetus' body during the pre-or perinatal period: fetal pathologist or fetal physician?].
What's about a practitian that have to care a non-existent and still dead patient? What's about a patient that only exists through pictures and pathology? What's about the expectation of the parents and medical team when the questions are mainly restricted to the cause of the death? Responses to these questions represent the aim of this paper that tries to delineate the ambiguity that exists between the facts and their consequences.
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Centre de diagnostic anténatal, hôpital Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, 75674 Paris, France. antgelot@aol.com
Legros
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D001344:Autopsy / Q000379:methods; D002423:Cause of Death; D005313:Fetal Death / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008487:Medical History Taking / Q000379:methods; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology; D010338:Pathology, Clinical / Q000379:methods*; D010500:Perinatology / Q000379:methods*; D010808:Physical Examination / Q000379:methods; D010819:Physician's Role; D011181:Postnatal Care / Q000379:methods*; D011295:Prenatal Care / Q000379:methods*