Is the route of delivery a meaningful issue in triplets and higher order multiples?

Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 25-29

  Dommergues, Marc ^a,b   Mahieu Caputo, Dominique ^a   Dumez, Yves ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b HÔPITAL ANTOINE BÉCLÈRE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGINAL DELIVERY; DELIVERY; EUROPE; FEMALE; METHODOLOGY; PREGNANCY; REVIEW; UNITED STATES;

CESAREAN SECTION; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; TRIPLETS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031941268     PISSN: 00099201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003081-199803000-00007     Document Type: Conference Paper

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