Luis Antonio Caballero Leal, Mario Ramón Muñoz Rodríguez, Elizabeth Soler Huerta, Aída Verónica Blanco Cornejo, María del Rocío Aguilar Barradas
OBJECTIVE: Determine the variation in type of maternal death and associated pathologies in the 2004-2008 period. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Maternal deaths retrospective and descriptive study at Delegación Veracruz Norte of the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Mexico. Medical files of obligatory regimen patients were included, between 2004-2008, from general zone hospitals of Xalapa, Veracruz, Cardel, Poza Rica, Martínez de la Torre and Lerdo de Tejada, and two subzone general hospitals: Tuxpan and San Andrés Tuxtla, also of the Delegación Veracruz Norte of the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social...
November 2009: Ginecología y Obstetricia de México