Breech infants: Vaginal or cesarean delivery?

Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica

Volumn 75, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 912-916

  Obwegeser, Reinhard ^a,b   Ulm, Martin ^a   Simon, Manfred ^a   Ploeckinger, Barbara ^a   Gruber, Walther ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Breech presentation; Cesarean section; Perinatal morbidity; Vaginal delivery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APGAR SCORE; ARTERIAL PH; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BREECH PRESENTATION; CESAREAN SECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MULTIPARA; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PARITY; PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UMBILICAL ARTERY; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

EID: 0030457881     PISSN: 00016349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00016349609055027     Document Type: Article

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