Operative vaginal delivery: A cause of birth injury or is it?

Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 563-581

  Towner, Dena R ^a   Ciotti, Mary C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fetal trauma; Maternal tauma; Vaginal delivery

Indexed keywords

ANUS SPHINCTER DISORDER; BIRTH INJURY; BRACHIAL PLEXUS INJURY; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CESAREAN SECTION; EPISIOTOMY; FECES INCONTINENCE; FORCEPS DELIVERY; HEAD AND NECK INJURY; HUMAN; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PELVIS FLOOR; REVIEW; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; URINE INCONTINENCE; VACUUM EXTRACTION; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

ANAL CANAL; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BIRTH INJURIES; BRACHIAL PLEXUS NEUROPATHIES; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; OBSTETRICAL FORCEPS; PERINEUM; PREGNANCY; SOFT TISSUE INJURIES; TRAUMA, NERVOUS SYSTEM; URINARY INCONTINENCE;

EID: 34548380895     PISSN: 00099201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/GRF.0b013e31811eaa39     Document Type: Review

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