Emergency cervical cerclage. Is there a role for amnioreduction?

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 155-158

  Cerqui, Anthony J ^a   Olive, Emily ^a   Bennett, Michael J ^a,b   Challis, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROMYCIN; MISOPROSTOL;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ADULT; AMNIOCENTESIS; ANEUPLOIDY; APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; FETUS GROWTH; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; SURVIVAL; SUTURE; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND; UTERINE CERVIX CERCLAGE; UTERINE CERVIX DILATATION; UTERINE CERVIX INCOMPETENCE; VAGINA DISCHARGE;

EID: 0033007632     PISSN: 00048666     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-828X.1999.tb03361.x     Document Type: Article

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