A comparable rate of levator ani muscle injury in operative vaginal delivery (forceps and vacuum) according to the characteristics of the instrumentation.

José Antonio García-MejidoAna Fernández-PalacínMaría J Bonomi BarbyLaura CastroAdriana AquiseJosé Antonio Sainz Bueno

Published in: Acta obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica (2019)

We consider that, in our population, LAM avulsion rate should not be a factor taken into account when choosing the type of instrumentation (Malmström vacuum or Kielland forceps) in an operative delivery.

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skeletal muscle