Outpatient misoprostol cervical ripening without subsequent induction of labor to prevent post-term pregnancy

Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica

Volumn 84, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 628-631

  Oboro, Victor O ^a,b   Tabowei, Tabs O ^a  

^a Zonal General Hospital   (Nigeria)

^b LADOKE AKINTOLA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Cervical ripening; Misoprostol; Outpatient; Post term pregnancy

Indexed keywords

MISOPROSTOL;

ADULT; AFRICA; APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; FETUS DISTRESS; FETUS MONITORING; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; LABOR; LABOR INDUCTION; NIGERIA; OPEN STUDY; OUTPATIENT; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLONGED PREGNANCY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SIDE EFFECT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVIX; UTERINE CERVIX RIPENING;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRAVAGINAL; ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; CERVICAL RIPENING; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; MISOPROSTOL; OXYTOCICS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY, PROLONGED; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 21444456485     PISSN: 00016349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0001-6349.2005.00655.x     Document Type: Article

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