The Porro procedure: Steps toward decreasing post-cesarean mortality

Primary Care Update for Ob/Gyns

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 120-123

  Earhart, Angela D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; INFUSION FLUID;

ABDOMINAL WALL; AMPUTATION STUMP; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM; BED; BLEEDING; BLOOD; CESAREAN SECTION; DELIVERY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; GENITAL SYSTEM; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INCISION; LAVAGE; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PORRO PROCEDURE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURGICAL APPROACH; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERUS; UTERUS SURGERY;

EID: 0038288679     PISSN: 1068607X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1068-607X(03)00005-2     Document Type: Review

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