Abdominal scar characteristics as a predictor of intra-abdominal adhesions at repeat cesarean delivery

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2324-2327

  Salim, Raed ^a,b   Kadan, Yfat ^a   Nachum, Zohar ^a,b   Edelstein, Shmuel ^a   Shalev, Eliezer ^a,b  

^a HAEMEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

abdominal scar characteristics; Adhesions; cesarean delivery

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ADHESION; ABDOMINAL DISEASE; ABDOMINAL SCAR; ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; OMENTUM; PELVIS; PERITONEUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAR; UTERUS;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; CESAREAN SECTION; CESAREAN SECTION, REPEAT; CICATRIX; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ODDS RATIO; PERITONEAL DISEASES; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TISSUE ADHESIONS; UTERINE DISEASES;

EID: 56649121882     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.10.037     Document Type: Article

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