Controversies in the use of the vacuum extractor

Seminars in Perinatology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 46-53

  Castro, Mary Ames ^a,b   Hoey, Steven D ^b   Towner, Dena ^b  

^a Burlington Memorial Hospital   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRTH INJURY; BRACHIAL PLEXUS INJURY; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORCEPS DELIVERY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTAL DELIVERY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; META ANALYSIS; OBSTETRIC CARE; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; VACUUM EXTRACTION;

EID: 0037296329     PISSN: 01460005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/sper.2003.50004     Document Type: Review

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