Sonographic Measurement of the Lower Uterine Segment Thickness: Is it Truly Predictive of Uterine Rupture?

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 307-309

  Meyer, Nicole Jastrow ^a   Gauthier, Robert J ^a   Bujold, Emmanuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL EVALUATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT PARAMETERS; HUMAN; INTERDELIVERY INTERVAL; INTRAPARTUM CARE; LETTER; LOWER UTERINE SEGMENT THICKNESS; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; PARAMETERS CONCERNING THE FETUS, NEWBORN AND PREGNANCY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK FACTOR; UTERINE CLOSURE; UTERUS RUPTURE; NOTE; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PREGNANCY; UTERUS;

FEMALE; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; UTERINE RUPTURE; UTERUS;

EID: 48249131181     PISSN: 17012163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1701-2163(16)32797-9     Document Type: Letter

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