Rate of change in cervical length in women with vaginal bleeding during pregnancy

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 121, Issue 2 PART 1, 2013, Pages 260-264

  Behrendt, Nicholas ^a,b   Gibbs, Ronald S ^a,b   Lynch, Anne ^a,b   Hart, Jan ^a,b   West, Nancy A ^a,b   Iams, Jay D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CERVICAL LENGTH MEASUREMENT; CERVICAL SLOPE; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT PARAMETERS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURE LABOR; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPONTANEOUS PRETERM LABOR; VAGINA BLEEDING;

CERVICAL RIPENING; CERVIX UTERI; FEMALE; HUMANS; ORGAN SIZE; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84873839403     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: 1873233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0b013e31827d8e1b     Document Type: Conference Paper

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