Advantages of vaginal delivery

Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 167-183

  Buhimschi, Catalin S ^a   Buhimschi, Irina A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT;

ADAPTATION; CESAREAN SECTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAPARTUM CARE; LABOR MANAGEMENT; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MORBIDITY; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NEONATAL RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; NEWBORN CARE; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; PUERPERIUM; STILLBIRTH; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

ANTIOXIDANTS; CESAREAN SECTION; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROGNOSIS; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, NEWBORN; STILLBIRTH; UTERUS;

EID: 33748542285     PISSN: 00099201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.grf.0000198186.71542.03     Document Type: Conference Paper

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