Selective Episiotomy: Indications, Techinique, and Association with Severe Perineal Lacerations

Abstract Introduction Episiotomy is a controversial procedure, especially because the discussion that surrounds it has gone beyond the field of scientific debate, being adopted as an indicator of the "humanization of childbirth". The scientific literature indicates that episiotomy should n...

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Main Author: Corrêa Junior,Mário Dias (author)
Other Authors: Passini Júnior,Renato (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2016
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Online Access:http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-72032016000600301
Country:Brazil
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