Clinical predictive factors for preterm birth in women with threatened preterm labour or preterm premature ruptured membranes?

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 16-21

  Yoneyama, Keiichiro ^a   Kimura, Aiko ^a   Kogo, Mari ^a   Kiuchi, Yuji ^a   Morimoto, Taro ^a   Okai, Takashi ^a  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Cervical length; Fetal fibronectin; Predictive factor; Preterm delivery

Indexed keywords

FIBRONECTIN; FFN PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BODY MASS; CERVICAL LENGTH MEASUREMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PELVIS; PREDICTION; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURE LABOR; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; HISTOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PREGNANCY; RISK; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; UTERINE CERVIX; UTERUS BLEEDING;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; CERVIX UTERI; FEMALE; FETAL MEMBRANES, PREMATURE RUPTURE; FIBRONECTINS; HUMANS; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; PREMATURE BIRTH; RISK FACTORS; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 66549094948     PISSN: 00048666     EISSN: 1479828X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-828X.2008.00930.x     Document Type: Article

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