Maternal Mortality With Cesarean Delivery: A Literature Review

Seminars in Perinatology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 242-246

  Vadnais, Mary ^a   Sachs, Benjamin ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

cesarean delivery; literature review; maternal mortality

Indexed keywords

CESAREAN SECTION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATERNAL MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

CESAREAN SECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MATERNAL MORTALITY; META-ANALYSIS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; PREGNANCY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RISK;

EID: 33748920344     PISSN: 01460005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semperi.2006.07.014     Document Type: Review

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