Management of multiple pregnancy: Labor and delivery

Obstetrical and Gynecological Survey

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 550-554

  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

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; BIRTH RATE; BREECH EXTRACTION; CESAREAN SECTION; DELIVERY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS MONITORING; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; LABOR; LABOR INDUCTION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA; OVULATION INDUCTION; PERINATAL MORBIDITY; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREMATURE LABOR; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TWIN PREGNANCY; UNITED STATES; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; FETAL MONITORING; HUMANS; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; MORBIDITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 23044488831     PISSN: 00297828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ogx.0000172090.87912.23     Document Type: Review

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