Log in with your email address username.

Forgot your password?

Didn't receive your activation email?

×

Attention doctorportal newsletter subscribers,

After December 2018, we will be moving elements from the doctorportal newsletter to MJA InSight newsletter and rebranding it to Insight+. If you’d like to continue to receive a newsletter covering the latest on research and perspectives in the medical industry, please subscribe to the Insight+ newsletter here.

As of January 2019, we will no longer be sending out the doctorportal email newsletter. The final issue of this newsletter will be distributed on 13 December 2018. Articles from this issue will be available to view online until 31 December 2018.

[Correspondence] Fetal macrosomia: induction of labour or expectant management?

  • - Featured Image   October 31, 2015
  • The Lancet 386, 10004 (2015)
  • Author: Elizabeth Grossetti

The study by Michel Boulvain and colleagues1 answers a recurrent and practical question in obstetrics: in pregnancies with large fetuses, is there an indication for induction of labour at term to shorten the pregnancy and reduce in-utero fetal weight gain and shoulder dystocia?

email