The fetal occiput posterior position: State of the science and a new perspective

Birth

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 61-71

  Simkin, Penny ^a  

^a BASTYR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrest of labor; Backpain in labor; Fetal malposition; Fetal rotation; Leopold's; Occiput posterior

Indexed keywords

CESAREAN SECTION; DELIVERY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; HEAD; HUMAN; LABOR COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; REVIEW;

CESAREAN SECTION; FEMALE; HEAD; HUMANS; LABOR PRESENTATION; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; VERSION, FETAL;

EID: 77649108128     PISSN: 07307659     EISSN: 1523536X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-536X.2009.00380.x     Document Type: Article

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