Placental abruption: Epidemiology, risk factors and consequences

Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 140-149

  Tikkanen, Minna ^a  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

consequence; epidemiology; outcome; Placental abruption; risk factor

Indexed keywords

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMAN; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; HYSTERECTOMY; KIDNEY FAILURE; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MATERNAL SMOKING; OBSTETRIC HEMORRHAGE; PATERNAL SMOKING; PERINATAL DEATH; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOLUTIO PLACENTAE; STILLBIRTH; THROMBOPHILIA; VAGINA BLEEDING;

ABRUPTIO PLACENTAE; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 79951565762     PISSN: 00016349     EISSN: 16000412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0412.2010.01030.x     Document Type: Review

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