Symphysiotomy: Is it obsolete?

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Research

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 770-774

  Basak, Subhadeep ^a   Kanungo, Shyama ^b   Majhi, Chaityanya ^b  

^a Midnapore Medical College and Hospital   (India)

^b Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology   (India)

Author keywords

Cesarean section; Obstructed labor; Symphysiotomy

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; CEFTRIAXONE; GENTAMICIN;

ABDOMINAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BRAIN HEMATOMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CEPHALHEMATOMA; CESAREAN SECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEVER; GAIT DISORDER; GENITOURINARY TRAUMA; HUMAN; HYPOXIC ISCHEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; LABOR COMPLICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MATERNAL WELFARE; NEWBORN ASSESSMENT; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PARALYTIC ILEUS; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PELVIS SURGERY; PERINATAL ASPHYXIA; PERITONITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; TRANSIENT PELVIC PAIN; URINE RETENTION; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE; WOUND INFECTION;

CESAREAN SECTION; COHORT STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DYSTOCIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MORBIDITY; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SYMPHYSIOTOMY;

EID: 80052707805     PISSN: 13418076     EISSN: 14470756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1447-0756.2010.01431.x     Document Type: Article

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