Monitoring of uterine activity in cases of labor augmentation, and newborn outcome

Prenatal and Neonatal Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 464-467

  Panayotopoulos, N ^a   Salamalekis, E ^a,b   Vitoratos, N ^a   Loghis, C ^a   Kassanos, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Augmented labor; Internal tocography; Uterine activity

Indexed keywords

EID: 27844490292     PISSN: 13598635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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