Clinical usefulness of white blood cell count after cesarean delivery

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 295-300

  Hartmann, Katherine E ^a,b   Barrett, Katherine E ^b   Reid, Virgil C ^b   McMahon, Michael J ^b   Miller, William C ^a,b  

^a IL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERAL INFECTION; RISK; WOUND HEALING;

ADULT; CESAREAN SECTION; ENDOMETRITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PUERPERAL INFECTION;

EID: 0033924301     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-7844(00)00911-X     Document Type: Article

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