Obstetric Emergencies

Seminars in Perinatology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 97-103

  Mirza, Fadi G ^a   Gaddipati, Sreedhar ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

blunt trauma; hematomas; lacerations; pelvic fractures; penetrating trauma; uterine inversion; uterine rupture

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; CESAREAN SECTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; LABOR STAGE 3; LAPAROTOMY; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; OBSTETRIC EMERGENCY; PELVIS INJURY; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; UTERUS INVERSION; UTERUS RUPTURE;

EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREGNANCY; UTERINE INVERSION; UTERINE RUPTURE; VAGINA; VAGINAL BIRTH AFTER CESAREAN; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 62549154065     PISSN: 01460005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semperi.2009.01.003     Document Type: Review

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