The continuing need for late abortions

JAMA

Volumn 280, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 747-750

  Grimes, David A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRACTION; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INDUCED ABORTION; LAW; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVIX DILATATION;

EID: 0032569252     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.280.8.747     Document Type: Review

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