Cervical cerclage

Fetal and Maternal Medicine Review

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 55-68

  Palaniappan, Vadivu ^a   Gibb, Donald ^a  

^a KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ERYTHROMYCIN; METRONIDAZOLE;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; BLEEDING; CLINICAL TRIAL; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; FETUS DEATH; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURITY; REOPERATION; REVIEW; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TECHNIQUE; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; UTERINE CERVIX CERCLAGE; UTERINE CERVIX INCOMPETENCE;

EID: 0033493950     PISSN: 09655395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0965539599000212     Document Type: Review

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