Biomechanics of cervical funneling: Case of cervical incompetence

Proceedings of the 2005 Summer Bioengineering Conference

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 1462-1463

  Paskaleva, Anastassia ^a   Socrate, Simona ^a   House, Michael ^b  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERVICAL INCOMPETENCE; CERVIX; PELVIC REGION; PREMATURE DILATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BIOMECHANICS;

EID: 33646552658     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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