Cornual gestation : rupture : pregnancy in opposite cornu after operation / by Alban Doran.

  • Doran, Alban H. G. (Alban Henry Griffiths), 1849-1927.
Date:
1906
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Credit: Cornual gestation : rupture : pregnancy in opposite cornu after operation / by Alban Doran. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    am- putation of a foot occuring in a Uterus Unicornis. S-S*/ The patient a woman aged 30 gave birth to a premature female child (16 inches long), in October 1908. Labour was complete in 2-§- hours. The patient states that she lost no ’’waters” either before or with the birth of the child. The midwife who arrived a few minutes after the child was born found the bed dry. The child's left foot was swollen and oe&ematous and a tough fibrous band was found twisted twice round the leg -J above the. ankle. On the removal of the constricting band the skin was found to be divided round the whole circumference of the leg. The child was able to flex and extend the foot and toes, proving the tendons, etc. undivided. There v/ere no congenital deformities; the skin was normal and no renal or cardiac affections could be detected. The oedema of the foot had completely disappeared ten day s a.fter birth, and the skin lesion he ale a. The child died three weeks after birth from marasmus. The third stage of labour lasted hal/ an hour. The maternal surface of the placenta was ragged and torn; the whole of the chorion and the greater part of the amnion were retained. A tough amniotic adhesion stretched from a point on the funis 2 from