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BackgroundTo assess whether the presence of an episiotomy or spontaneous perineal trauma at the first delivery increases the risk of perineal trauma at the following one.
MethodsWe studied 2,695 women who gave birth twice at Virgen de las Nieves University Hospital of Granada, Spain. All second deliveries were from 2004 to 2011 and prenatal database records were used to obtain information about the...