Rising cesarean delivery and preterm birth rates: Are they related?

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 810-811

  Leveno, Kenneth J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRTH RATE; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EDITORIAL; ELECTIVE SURGERY; GESTATION PERIOD; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NEONATAL RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURE LABOR; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

CESAREAN SECTION; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; UNITED STATES;

EID: 41649089711     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0b013e31816bfe6d     Document Type: Editorial

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