Pregnancy, labor, delivery, and pelvic organ prolapse

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 981-986

  Sze, Eddie H M ^a   Sherard, Gordon B ^a   Dolezal, Jeanette M ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CESAREAN SECTION; CHILDBIRTH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEGRO; NULLIPARA; ORGANIZATION; PELVIS INJURY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CESAREAN SECTION; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; HUMANS; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; PELVIS; PREGNANCY; PROLAPSE; URINARY BLADDER DISEASES; UTERINE PROLAPSE;

EID: 0036856085     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: 1873233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006250-200211000-00027     Document Type: Article

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