Prediction and Prevention of Preterm Delivery in Multiple Gestations

Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 203-215

  Sullivan, Scott A ^a   Newman, Roger B ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CLINDAMYCIN; FERRITIN; FIBRONECTIN; HYDROXYPROGESTERONE CAPROATE; INDOMETACIN; INTERLEUKIN 18; LACTOFERRIN; PROGESTERONE; TERBUTALINE; UTERUS SPASMOLYTIC AGENT;

ADULT; APGAR SCORE; BED REST; CARDIOTOXICITY; CERCLAGE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HOME CARE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; META ANALYSIS; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT MONITORING; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURE LABOR; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SKIN NECROSIS; UTERINE CERVICITIS; UTERINE CERVIX; VAGINITIS;

FEMALE; HUMANS; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE;

EID: 1842432086     PISSN: 00099201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003081-200403000-00021     Document Type: Conference Paper

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