Mid-second-trimester labor induction: Concentrated oxytocin compared with prostaglandin E2 vaginal suppositories

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 1991, Pages 297-300

  Winkler, Carey L ^a   Gray, Samuel E ^a   Hauth, John C ^a   Owen, John ^a   Tucker, J Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN; PROSTAGLANDIN E2;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDUCED ABORTION; INTRAVAGINAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LABOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NAUSEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; VOMITING;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ADULT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DINOPROSTONE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; OXYTOCIN; PESSARIES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0026034597     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: 1873233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006250-199102000-00028     Document Type: Article

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