Surgical treatment of patients with hour glass shaped or ruptured membranes prior to the twenty-fifth week of gestation

Goodlin, R.C.

Surgery Gynecology and Obstetrics 165(5): 410-412

1987


ISSN/ISBN: 0039-6087
PMID: 3672300
Document Number: 288880
The surgical technique of cervical cerclage in patients with bulging membranes prior to the twenty-fourth week of gestation is described. Of the 11 patients, ten had viable births. Ten of the 11 patients had spontaneous rupture of their membranes, lasting from two and one-half to 14 weeks. The only adverse effects of rupture of membranes were preterm labor and fetal growth retardation.

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