Maternal Morbidity and Mortality Associated with Intrauterine Fetal Demise: Five-Year Experience in a Tertiary Referral Hospital

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 493-495

  Magann, Everett F ^a   Chauhan, Suneet P ^a   Bofill, James A ^a   Waddell, David ^a   Rust, Orion A ^a   Morrison, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DELIVERY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS DEATH; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; LABOR COMPLICATION; MATERNAL MORTALITY; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MISSISSIPPI; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 0035347861     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007611-200105000-00009     Document Type: Article

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