Obstetric complications, intervention rates and maternofetal outcome in teenage nullipara in Benin City, Nigeria

Tropical Doctor

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 79-83

  Ebeigbe, Peter N ^a   Gharoro, Etedafe P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BENIN   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; EPISIOTOMY; FEMALE; FETUS OUTCOME; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERVENTION STUDY; LIVE BIRTH; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MARRIAGE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MATERNAL WELFARE; NIGERIA; NULLIPARA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERINATAL ASPHYXIA; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; PRENATAL CARE; STILLBIRTH; UNWANTED PREGNANCY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; MEDICAL AUDIT; PARITY; PREGNANCY; SOCIOECONOMICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT HEALTH SERVICES; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; NIGERIA; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY IN ADOLESCENCE; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL CARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 34447324120     PISSN: 00494755     EISSN: 17581133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/004947507780609356     Document Type: Article

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