Caesarean myomectomy and sterilization at twentieth week of gestation.

Date:
1934
  • Film

About this work

Description

Shows a case of first pregnancy in a 42-year-old female complicated by mitral incompetence. The pregnancy is terminated due to the condition of the patient, and the patient is sterilised. Five stages in the operation are shown: the median suprapubic abdominal incision; the uterine incision; myomectomy; sterilization; peritoneal toilet.

Publication/Creation

England, 1934.

Physical description

1 film reel (12 min.) : silent, black and white, 16 mm

Creator/production credits

Produced by Prof. H. Beckwith Whitehouse, Dept. of Midwifery and Diseases of Women at the University of Birmingham.

Copyright note

British Medical Association

Type/Technique

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