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Digital examination has always been the “gold standard” method to evaluate the foetal head descent, cervical ripening and dilatation and foetal head position before and during labour [1] and has led to the development of comprehensive partograms used on most delivery units [2].
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Taylor, S., Hassan, W.A. (2021). Cervical Dilatation by Transperineal or Translabial Ultrasound. In: Malvasi, A. (eds) Intrapartum Ultrasonography for Labor Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57595-3_20
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