Induction du travail et présentation du siège : expérience de la maternité de l'hôpital Robert-Debré, Paris

The primary objective of this study was to evaluate an unusual operating practice in a well-trained level 3 obstetrical team. The results do comfort our attitude since they show equivalent results in terms of delivery mode and neonatal issues between breech presentations with spontaneous labour on one hand, and with labour induced by cervical maturation on the other hand. It seems however difficult to extrapolate our results and apply them to usual practice due to the lack of power of a retrospective and non-randomized study. Setting up a randomized and prospective study seems however difficult because of the medical and ethical problems it would raise.