American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Volume 179, Issue 4 , Pages 890-894 , October 1998

Can we decrease postdatism in women with an unfavorable cervix and a negative fetal fibronectin test result at term by serial membrane sweeping?

Presented at the Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the Society of Perinatal Obstetricians, Miami Beach, Florida, February 2-7, 1998.

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☆ From the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Naval Medical Center, San Diego,a the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical College of Georgia,b and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Mississippi Medical Center.c

☆☆ Supported in part by Vicksburg Hospital Medical Foundation.

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American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Volume 179, Issue 4 , Pages 890-894 , October 1998

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