Textbook recommendations for preventing and treating perineal injury at vaginal delivery

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 361-366

  Stepp, Kevin J ^a   Siddiqui, Nazema Y ^a   Emery, Stephen P ^a   Barber, Matthew D ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ANUS CONTINENCE; ANUS SPHINCTER; ARTICLE; BOOK; EPISIOTOMY; LACERATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PERINEUM INJURY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VAGINAL DELIVERY; CONSENSUS; DELIVERY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; LABOR COMPLICATION; OBSTETRICS; PERINEUM; PREGNANCY;

CONSENSUS; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; OBSTETRICS; PERINEUM; PREGNANCY; TEXTBOOKS;

EID: 33645460195     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: 1873233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AOG.0000196502.33265.a4     Document Type: Article

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