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Pregnancy in patients after severe abdominal burns
Author(s) -
DAW E.,
MOHANDAS I.
Publication year - 1983
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.1471-0528.1983.tb06749.x
Subject(s) - medicine , pregnancy , abdominal pregnancy , surgery , obstetrics , fetus , genetics , biology
Summary. Eleven viable pregnancies in six patients who had previously suffered severe abdominal burns are reported. The major problem in pregnancy is of abdominal skin which is too scarred to stretch and, in the puerperium, of damaged nipples.