Continuous versus interrupted perineal repair with standard or rapidly absorbed sutures after spontaneous vaginal birth: A randomised controlled trial

Lancet

Volumn 359, Issue 9325, 2002, Pages 2217-2223

  Kettle, Christine ^a   Hills, Robert K ^b   Jones, Peter ^c   Darby, Louisa ^a   Gray, Richard ^b   Johanson, Richard ^a  

^a Academic Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBABLE SUTURE; POLYGLACTIN; SUTURE MATERIAL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPAREUNIA; EPISIOTOMY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEEDLE; PERINEUM INJURY; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURE REMOVAL; SUTURING METHOD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

EID: 0037193855     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(02)09312-1     Document Type: Article

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