The morbidly adherent placenta: An overview of management options

Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica

Volumn 89, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1126-1133

  Doumouchtsis, Stergios K ^a   Arulkumaran, Sabaratnam ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accreta; Diagnosis; Increta; Management; Morbidly adherent placenta; Percreta

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; METHOTREXATE; OXYTOCIC AGENT; FOLIC ACID ANTAGONIST;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTERY LIGATION; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BALLOON CATHETER; BLADDER INJURY; BLADDER LACERATION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; CATHETER OCCLUSION; CESAREAN SECTION; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CURETTAGE; CYSTECTOMY; CYSTOSCOPY; DELIVERY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DRUG MEGADOSE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; FERTILITY; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEMATURIA; HEMOSTASIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INCIDENCE; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER TOXICITY; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG FIBROSIS; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MYOMETRIUM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLACENTA ACCRETA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PRENATAL PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SCAR; SUTURE; TISSUE INJURY; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TREATMENT PLANNING; URETER INJURY; URETER STENT; URINARY TRACT FISTULA; COCHRANE LIBRARY; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; EMBASE; MANUAL PLACENTAL DELIVERY; MEDLINE; MORBIDLY ADHERENT PLACENTA; PLACENTA DISORDER; PLACENTA PREVIA; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; SCAR FORMATION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; UTERINE ATONY; CATHETERIZATION; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; OPERATIVE BLOOD LOSS; PATHOLOGY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; URINARY BLADDER DISEASES; VASCULARIZATION;

BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CATHETERIZATION; CESAREAN SECTION; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FOLIC ACID ANTAGONISTS; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; METHOTREXATE; MYOMETRIUM; PLACENTA; PLACENTA ACCRETA; PLACENTA PREVIA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RISK FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; URINARY BLADDER DISEASES;

EID: 77956333243     PISSN: 00016349     EISSN: 16000412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00016349.2010.503869     Document Type: Review

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