Management of multiple pregnancy: Prenatal care - Part I

Obstetrical and Gynecological Survey

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 527-537

  Ayres, Allen ^a   Johnson, Timothy R B ^b  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER PORTSMOUTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CORTICOSTEROID; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; SALBUTAMOL; UTERUS SPASMOLYTIC AGENT;

ABORTION; BED REST; BIRTH RATE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CESAREAN SECTION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS LUNG MATURATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEREDITY; HOME MONITORING; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; OVULATION INDUCTION; PARITY; PERINATAL MORBIDITY; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURE LABOR; PRENATAL CARE; RACE; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TOCOLYSIS; TWIN PREGNANCY; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVIX CERCLAGE; UTERUS CONTRACTION; VAGINAL DELIVERY; WEIGHT GAIN;

ADULT; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; PRENATAL CARE; RISK FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 23044466633     PISSN: 00297828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ogx.0000172088.29348.e4     Document Type: Review

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