Pre-term pre-labour amniorrhexis

Current Opinion in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 441-448

  Carroll, Stephen ^a   Sebire, Neil ^a   Nicolaides, Kypros ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; UTERUS SPASMOLYTIC AGENT;

AMNIOCENTESIS; AMNIOINFUSION; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BED REST; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORDOCENTESIS; FETUS BLOOD; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUNG HYPOPLASIA; NEWBORN SEPSIS; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURE LABOR; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0030477703     PISSN: 1040872X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001703-199612000-00010     Document Type: Review

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