Fertility and Sterility
Volume 90, Issue 6 , Pages 2324-2327 , December 2008

Abdominal scar characteristics as a predictor of intra-abdominal adhesions at repeat cesarean delivery

  • Raed Salim, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ha'Emek Medical Center, Afula, Israel
    • Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Raed Salim, M.D., Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Haemek Medical Center, Afula 18101, Israel (FAX: 972-4-6494032).
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  • Yfat Kadan, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ha'Emek Medical Center, Afula, Israel
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  • Zohar Nachum, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ha'Emek Medical Center, Afula, Israel
    • Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
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  • Shmuel Edelstein, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ha'Emek Medical Center, Afula, Israel
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  • Eliezer Shalev, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ha'Emek Medical Center, Afula, Israel
    • Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Received 22 July 2007 ,Revised 12 September 2007 ,Accepted 17 October 2007.

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PII: S0015-0282(07)03920-9

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.10.037

Fertility and Sterility
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