Increased rates of chorioamnionitis with extra-amniotic saline infusion method of labor induction

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 724-728

  Levey, Kenneth A ^a   MacKenzie, Andrew P ^b   Stephenson, Courtney ^b   Bercik, Richard ^b   Kuczynski, Edward ^b   Funai, Edmund F ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; MISOPROSTOL; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; AMNIOINFUSION; ARTICLE; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRA AMNIOTIC SALINE INFUSION METHOD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; INSTRUMENTAL DELIVERY; LABOR; LABOR INDUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; UTERINE CERVIX RIPENING; BALLOON DILATATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; INFUSION; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; BALLOON DILATATION; CERVICAL RIPENING; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, PARENTERAL; LABOR, INDUCED; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

EID: 2342480590     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AOG.0000118308.65550.f6     Document Type: Article

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