Vaginal delivery after cesarean section in women with unknown types of uterine scar.
Documentation of a prior cesarean and the type of uterine scar has been used as one criterion for permitting patients a trial of labor. In a highly mobile patient population such as ours, these medical facts are often difficult or impossible to obtain. As a result, we retrospectively examined the performance of patients with unknown types of cesarean scar and found no difference between them and a similar population with documented low cervical scars. Although obtaining an old record is useful, its absence probably should not interdict a trial of labor in a patient who desires to attempt vaginal delivery.
D002585:Cesarean Section; D002921:Cicatrix / Q000503:physiopathology*; D036861:Delivery, Obstetric / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007743:Labor, Obstetric; D011247:Pregnancy; D012086:Reoperation; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014599:Uterus