Cesarean in Saint Petersburg

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Caesarean section in modern operative obstetrics belongs to the leading place. Delivery by cesarean section replaced long-term traumatic childbirth with repeated stimulation of labor and such operations as extraction of the fetus at the pelvic end, obstetric forceps, vacuum extraction of the fetus. In the Russian Federation, the frequency of caesarean section has increased 3 times in recent decades and in 1995 it was 11%. In St. Petersburg, according to the Health Committee in 1995-96. it was 12. 8%, and in 2001 it reached 15. 1%.

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Yuri V. Tsvelev

Military-medical Academy

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Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

А. A. Pakhomov

Military-medical Academy

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Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology named after A. Ya. Krassovsky

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

D. I. Gaivoronskikh

Military-medical Academy

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Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology named after A. Ya. Krassovsky

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

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