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Cervical cesarean damage as a growing clinical problem: The association between in-labour cesarean section and recurrent preterm birth in subsequent pregnancies.
Increasing evidence supports an association between in-labour cesarean section and recurrent preterm birth in subsequent pregnancies. This clinically challenging problem may be caused by cervical damage at the time of in-labour cesarean section.
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