Obstetric perineal injury: Risk factors and strategies for prevention

Seminars in Perinatology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 13-19

  O'Herlihy, Colm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; HYALURONIDASE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; OXYTOCIN;

ANORECTAL PRESSURE; ANUS SPHINCTER; DELIVERY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPISIOTOMY; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FORCEPS DELIVERY; HUMAN; INCONTINENCE; INFECTION; INSTRUMENTAL DELIVERY; MACROSOMIA; MANOMETRY; PARITY; PATIENT COUNSELING; PERINEUM INJURY; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SCAR; ULTRASOUND; VACUUM EXTRACTION; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

EID: 0037297299     PISSN: 01460005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/sper.2003.50001     Document Type: Review

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