Misoprostol for second-trimester pregnancy termination in women with a prior cesarean delivery

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 352-356

  Dickinson, Jan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MISOPROSTOL;

ADULT; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CESAREAN SECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; FETUS MALFORMATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INDUCED ABORTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SECOND TRIMESTER ABORTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERUS RUPTURE;

ABORTION, THERAPEUTIC; ADMINISTRATION, INTRAVAGINAL; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CESAREAN SECTION; COHORT STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MATERNAL AGE; MISOPROSTOL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PROBABILITY; REGISTRIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 13644265570     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AOG.0000151996.16422.88     Document Type: Review

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