Light-induced fluorescence of the human cervix decreases after prostaglandin application for induction of labor at term

European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Biology

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 62-66

  Fittkow, Cordula T ^a,b   Maul, Holger ^a,c   Olson, Gayle ^a   Martin, Elizabeth ^a   MacKay, Lynette B ^a   Saade, George R ^a   Garfield, Robert E ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cervical ripening; Collascope; Cross links; Dinoprostone; Labor induction; Light induced fluorescence; Misoprostol; Prostaglandins

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; MISOPROSTOL; PREPEDIL; PROSTAGLANDIN E2;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROSS LINKING; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; FLUORESCENCE; HUMAN; LABOR INDUCTION; LIGHT; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STUDENT T TEST; UTERINE CERVIX; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST;

EID: 27644530110     PISSN: 03012115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejogrb.2005.03.006     Document Type: Article

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