How does multiple pregnancy affect maternal mortality and morbidity?

Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 79-83

  Senat, Marie Victoire ^a,b   Ancel, Pierre Yves ^a   Bouvier Colle, Marie Helene ^a   Bréart, Gerard ^a  

^a National Institute of Health and Medical Research   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESAREAN SECTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TWIN PREGNANCY; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREGNANCY; STATISTICS;

CESAREAN SECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0031917333     PISSN: 00099201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003081-199803000-00013     Document Type: Conference Paper

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