The changing motives of cesarean section: From the ancient world to the twenty-first century

Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Volumn 271, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 281-285

  Lurie, Samuel ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEEDING; BREECH PRESENTATION; CESAREAN SECTION; ECLAMPSIA; FETUS DEATH; FETUS HEART RATE; FETUS MONITORING; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INFECTION; MALPRESENTATION; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PERITONITIS; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SEPTICEMIA; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CESAREAN SECTION; FEMALE; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMANS; MOTIVATION; MYTHOLOGY; PREGNANCY;

EID: 18744381298     PISSN: 09320067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00404-005-0724-4     Document Type: Review

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