Contents: Although better nutrition improved the pelvic inlet the diagnostic challenges of the pelvic outlet have remained unchanged? (Opening).- X-ray pelvimetry.- Ultrasound, X-ray, and CT pelvimetry compared.- The use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) in pelvimetry.- Uterine contractility.- Primigravid labor.- Functional analysis of cephalopelvic relation.- Active management of labor.- Some selection factors for breech delivery.- Management of dystocia.- Management of relative fetopelvic disproportion. Shoulder dystocia.- The influence of premature rupture of membranes (PROM) on the course of labor.- Obstetric forceps - past, present, and future.- Instrumental vaginal delivery today: forceps delivery versus vacuum extraction.- Injuries to the soft tissue passageway.- Panel.- Index.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Labor -- Congresses.
Pelvimetry -- Congresses.
Pregnancy -- Complications -- Congresses.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
RG527
Book number
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I584
1987
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
[International Symposium "Problems of the Pelvic Passageway," Bremen, September, 13-14, 1985] ; Diether Langnickel (ed.).