International Journal of Obstetric Anesthesia
Volume 18, Issue 4 , Pages 328-334 , October 2009

A randomized controlled trial of the effect of combined spinal-epidural analgesia on the success of external cephalic version for breech presentation

Financial Support: The Woman’s Board of Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois and the Department of Anesthesiology.

,Accepted 2 February 2009.

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PII: S0959-289X(09)00043-0

doi: 10.1016/j.ijoa.2009.02.006

International Journal of Obstetric Anesthesia
Volume 18, Issue 4 , Pages 328-334 , October 2009

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