Forceps compared with vacuum: Rates of neonatal and maternal morbidity

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 426-427

  Lurie, Samuel ^a   Sadan, Oscar ^a   Golan, Abraham ^a  

^a WOLFSON MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEMALE; FORCEPS; FORCEPS DELIVERY; HUMAN; LABOR COMPLICATION; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; NOTE; PREGNANCY; VACUUM EXTRACTION; ADULT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FETUS OUTCOME; LETTER; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; PERINEUM INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOULDER DYSTOCIA;

EXTRACTION, OBSTETRICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; OBSTETRICAL FORCEPS; PREGNANCY; VACUUM EXTRACTION, OBSTETRICAL;

EID: 33645460762     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: 1873233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AOG.0000199423.94849.87     Document Type: Letter

References (3)

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