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A CASE OF SPONTANEOUS RUPTURE OF AN APPARENTLY NORMAL UTERUS AT THE COMMENCEMENT OF LABOUR
Author(s) -
MURRAY R. MILNE
Publication year - 1902
Publication title -
bjog: an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.157
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1471-0528
pISSN - 1470-0328
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1902.tb10520.x
Subject(s) - medicine , citation , obstetrics and gynaecology , gynecology , obstetrics , library science , pregnancy , computer science , genetics , biology
signs of threatened rupture, and thus we can, in a number of cases, exercise a salutary prophylaxis with the best results. Further, though cases arise from time to time in which no opportunity for preventive measures is given us, the resources of modern surgery encourage us to interfere, even in apparently desperate circumstances, and not infrequently this boldness is amply justified. It may, I think, be safely said that the occurrence of a case of rupture of the uterus in the hands of an obstetrician is, in the great majority of cases, a reproach to him and a slight on his art. In most cases the conditions which predispose to it