Cervical softening occurs early in pregnancy: Characterization of cervical stiffness in 100 healthy women using the aspiration technique

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 737-741

  Badir, Sabrina ^a   Mazza, Edoardo ^a,c   Zimmermann, Roland ^b   Bajka, Michael ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUERPERIUM; RIGIDITY; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; UTERINE CERVIX; UTERINE CERVIX RIPENING;

ADULT; CERVIX UTERI; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; PRESSURE; SUCTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84881312823     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: 10970223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.4116     Document Type: Article

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