title: Pregnancy and delivery after cone biopsy of the cervix.
abstract: Seventy-seven women had 98 pregnancies after a cone biopsy of the cervix. There were 62 deliveries, 26 legal abortions, 9 spontaneous abortions and 1 ectopic pregnancy. Cervical cerclage was done for 22 out of 62 conized parturients (35.4%) and for none in the matched control group. There were 4 (6.4%) preterm deliveries in the cone biopsy group and 1 in the control group. The perinatal mortalities were 3.2% and 0% respectively. The mean duration of labour was 2.4 h shorter in the conized parturients than in the controls (P less than 0.05) but there were no difference in the mode of delivery in the two groups.
mesh_terms: D000022:Abortion, Spontaneous / Q000209:etiology; D000328:Adult; D001706:Biopsy; D002584:Cervix Uteri / Q000473:pathology*; D005113:Extraction, Obstetrical; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007751:Labor, Induced; D007744:Obstetric Labor Complications / Q000209:etiology*; D007752:Obstetric Labor, Premature / Q000517:prevention & control; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000209:etiology*; D002578:Uterine Cervical Dysplasia / Q000473:pathology*; D002581:Uterine Cervical Incompetence / Q000209:etiology; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*