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A COMPARISON BETWEEN MIDLINE AND MEDIOLATERAL EPISIOTOMIES
Author(s) -
Coats P. M.,
Chan K. K.,
Wilkins M.,
Beard R. J.
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.tb04569.x
Subject(s) - medicine , anal sphincter , prospective cohort study , external anal sphincter , sphincter , surgery , anal canal , rectum
Summary A randomised prospective study of 407 primiparous patients compared the consequences of midline and mediolateral episiotomies. The patients' estimates of the pain from their episiotomies were similar. Anal sphincter injury was significantly more common after a midline procedure but no rectovaginal fistulae occurred. Scarring was less noticeable after the midline incision and intercourse began earlier.