VBAC - Is it worth the risk?

Seminars in Perinatology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 105-111

  Socol, Michael L ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTAGLANDIN;

CESAREAN SECTION; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DELIVERY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FETUS MORTALITY; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INCISION; LABOR INDUCTION; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; OBSTETRIC CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SCAR; SURGICAL INJURY; UTERUS RUPTURE; VAGINAL BIRTH AFTER CESAREAN SECTION; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

EID: 0037297842     PISSN: 01460005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/sper.2003.50008     Document Type: Review

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