Delivery After Prior Cesarean: Success Rate and Factors

Clinics in Perinatology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 233-245

  Shanks, Anthony L ^a   Cahill, Alison G ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Factors; Prior cesarean; Success; Trial of labor after cesarean; Vaginal birth after cesarean

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; CESAREAN SECTION; ETHNICITY; FAMILY PLANNING; HUMAN; LABOR INDUCTION; MACROSOMIA; MATERNAL AGE; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; TRIAL OF LABOR; UTERUS MALFORMATION; UTERUS RUPTURE; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MATERNAL AGE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PREGNANCY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TRIAL OF LABOR; UNITED STATES; UTERINE RUPTURE; VAGINAL BIRTH AFTER CESAREAN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79957990558     PISSN: 00955108     EISSN: 15579840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clp.2011.03.011     Document Type: Review

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