Natural history of fetal position during pregnancy and risk of nonvertex delivery

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 875-880

  Witkop, Catherine Takacs ^a   Zhang, Jun ^b   Sun, Wenyu ^b   Troendle, James ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNION FLUID; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; BREECH EXTRACTION; BREECH PRESENTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS POSITION; GESTATION PERIOD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL SMOKING; MULTIPARA; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NULLIPARA; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL SCREENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

AMNIOTIC FLUID; BREECH PRESENTATION; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; ECHINOCANDINS; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ACOUSTIC; ODDS RATIO; PARITY; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING;

EID: 41649120321     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0b013e318168576d     Document Type: Article

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