Placenta percreta masquerading as an acute abdomen

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 113, Issue 2 PART 2, 2009, Pages 512-514

  Roca, Luis E ^a   Hoffman, M Camille ^a   Gaitan, Lucia F ^a   Burkett, Gene ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID DERIVATIVE;

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ACUTE ABDOMEN; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; FETUS HEART RATE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEMOPERITONEUM; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LAPAROTOMY; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PELVIS; PLACENTA ACCRETA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; HYSTERECTOMY; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

ABDOMEN, ACUTE; ADULT; CESAREAN SECTION, REPEAT; FEMALE; HEMOPERITONEUM; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; INFANT, NEWBORN; PLACENTA ACCRETA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND;

EID: 60549100170     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0b013e318188bece     Document Type: Article

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