The end of vaginal breech delivery

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 113, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 969-972

  Burke, G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^b Steamboat Quay   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ASPHYXIA; BIRTH INJURY; BRACHIAL PLEXUS INJURY; BREECH EXTRACTION; CEREBRAL PALSY; CESAREAN SECTION; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; HUMAN; INJURY; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NETHERLANDS; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NOCICEPTION; NOTE; NULLIPARA; PELVIS FLOOR; PERINATAL DEATH; PERINATAL MORBIDITY; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL FUNCTION; STRESS; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

BREECH PRESENTATION; CESAREAN SECTION; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFORMED CONSENT; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME;

EID: 33746121528     PISSN: 14700328     EISSN: 14710528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2006.00997.x     Document Type: Note

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