Preterm deliveries among women with MacDonald cerclage performed due to cervical incompetence

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 361-365

  Sheiner, Eyal ^a   Bashiri, Asher ^a   Shoham Vardi, Ilana ^a   Hershkovitz, Reli ^a   Mazor, Moshe ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cervical incompetence; MacDonald cerclage; Preterm delivery; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MACDONALD CERCLAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NULLIPARA; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; UTERINE CERVIX CERCLAGE;

ADULT; CERCLAGE, CERVICAL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; RISK FACTORS; UTERINE CERVICAL INCOMPETENCE;

EID: 3042541734     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000077966     Document Type: Article

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