Closure versus non-closure of the peritoneum at caesarean section: Short-and long-term outcomes

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2014, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Bamigboye, Anthony A ^a   Hofmeyr, G Justus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIEMETIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; HEMOGLOBIN; MORPHINE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANGIOGENESIS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CESAREAN SECTION; CHRONIC PAIN; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CYSTITIS; DEFECATION; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ENDOMETRITIS; ENDOMYOMETRITIS; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FEMALE SUBFERTILITY; FEVER; FIBROSIS; HEMATOMA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTESTINE FUNCTION; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LENGTH OF STAY; MORBIDITY; MOUTH TEMPERATURE; NEOANGIOGENESIS; NON CLOSURE TECHNIQUE; OPERATION DURATION; OPERATIVE BLOOD LOSS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARALYTIC ILEUS; PELVIC PAIN; PERITONEUM; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; STRESS INCONTINENCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TISSUE ADHESION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY FREQUENCY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINARY URGENCY; VISCERA; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND INFECTION; FEMALE; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; PERITONEAL DISEASE; PREGNANCY; STATISTICS; SUTURING METHOD;

ABDOMINAL WOUND CLOSURE TECHNIQUES; CESAREAN SECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; OPERATIVE TIME; PERITONEAL DISEASES; PERITONEUM; PREGNANCY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TISSUE ADHESIONS;

EID: 84907164903     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD000163.pub2     Document Type: Review

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