Cervical assessment by ultrasound for preventing preterm delivery

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2013, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Berghella, Vincenzo ^a   Baxter, Jason K ^a   Hendrix, Nancy W ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CERVICAL LENGTH MEASUREMENT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL OUTCOME; FETUS LUNG MATURITY; FETUS OUTCOME; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; NEWBORN INFECTION; OBSTETRIC DELIVERY; PERINATAL DEATH; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURE LABOR; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERAL INFECTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SCREENING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TOCOLYSIS; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TWIN PREGNANCY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; METHODOLOGY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY; UTERINE CERVIX;

CERVICAL LENGTH MEASUREMENT; CERVIX UTERI; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; PREGNANCY, TWIN; PREMATURE BIRTH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874790242     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD007235.pub3     Document Type: Review

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