Interventional Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynaecology

List of Contributors; Preface; Section 1: Obstetrics: 1. Patient counselling, ethical and legal issues; 2. Overview of interventional ultrasound: tricks and traps of ultrasound guidance; 3. Ultrasound guided techniques in fetal medicine; 4. Anesthesia for interventional ultrasound in obstetrics; 5. Fetal anesthesia and analgesia; 6. Coelocentisis: a new invasive technique for very early prenatal diagnosis; 7. Chorionic villus sampling; 8. Amniocentesis; 9. Ultrasound guided fetal blood sampling; 10. Intrauterine fetal transfusions; 11. Fetal shunts; 12. Fetal umbilical cord catheterization under ultrasound guidance; 13. Intrauterine pressure; 14. Prenatal diagnosis and therapeutic techniques in twin pregnancies; 15. Pregnancy reduction multifetal pregnancies; Section 2: Gynecology: 16. Interventional ultrasound in daily gynecology practice; 17. Ultrasound or endoscopy in the treatment and adnexal cystic masses; 18. Pelvic masses and other interventional targets; 19. Transvaginal sonographic puncture procedures for the management of ectopic pregnancies; 20. Ultrasound guided transcervical metroplasy; 21. Laparascopic ultrasound technology; 22. Techniques for assisted reproduction; 23. Urogynecology; Section 3: Breast: 24. Breast mass preoperative localization under ultrasound guidance; 25. Ultrasound guided interventions on breast masses; 26. The place of X-rays and ultrasound in interventional mastology