Obstetric outcome of teenage pregnancies compared with adult pregnancies

Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 178-183

  Usta, Ihab M ^a   Zoorob, Dani ^a   Abu Musa, Antoine ^a   Naassan, Georges ^a   Nassar, Anwar H ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Adolescent pregnancy; Complications; Labour; Perinatal morbidity; Perinatal mortality

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; AMNION FLUID; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BREECH EXTRACTION; CESAREAN SECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; MECONIUM; NULLIPARA; OBSTETRIC CARE; PLACENTA PREVIA; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLUTIO PLACENTAE; STILLBIRTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANEMIA; BIRTH WEIGHT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CESAREAN SECTION; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LABOR STAGE, FIRST; LABOR STAGE, SECOND; PARITY; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY IN ADOLESCENCE; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE BIRTH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VACUUM EXTRACTION, OBSTETRICAL;

EID: 38649112580     PISSN: 00016349     EISSN: 16000412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00016340701803282     Document Type: Article

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