Intrapartum management of twin gestations

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 109, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1167-1176

  Cruikshank, Dwight P ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNION; APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BREECH EXTRACTION; CESAREAN SECTION; CONJOINED TWINS; FEMALE; FETUS MONITORING; FETUS WEIGHT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INTRAPARTUM CARE; LABOR; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; NEONATAL RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; NEWBORN DEATH; PERINATAL DEATH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; STILLBIRTH; TWIN PREGNANCY; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

BREECH PRESENTATION; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; TRIAL OF LABOR; TWINS; TWINS, CONJOINED; VAGINAL BIRTH AFTER CESAREAN;

EID: 34247557049     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AOG.0000260387.69720.5d     Document Type: Article

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