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ANTEPARTUM HAEMOPERITONEUM DUE TO PLACENTA INCRETA CASE REPORT
Author(s) -
Bromham D. R.,
Joyce D. N.
Publication year - 1980
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.1471-0528.1980.tb04431.x
Subject(s) - medicine , laparotomy , obstetrics , caesarean section , paracentesis , placenta , pregnancy , surgery , ascites , fetus , genetics , biology
Summary A patient is described in whom a placenta increta led to a haemoperitoneum. The diagnosis, made abdominal paracentesis, led to laparotomy and Caesarean hysterectomy at 31 weeks; the child survived. Delay in diagnosis of the haemoperitoneum was mainly due to difficulties in clinical assessment caused an episode of premature labour and maternal psychiatric illness.