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Acute Intestinal Obstruction During Pregnancy: A Brief Review and Report of Two Cases
Author(s) -
Hammouda A.
Publication year - 1967
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.734
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1479-828X
pISSN - 0004-8666
DOI - 10.1111/j.1479-828x.1967.tb02498.x
Subject(s) - pregnancy , incidence (geometry) , medicine , obstetrics , mathematics , biology , genetics , geometry
Intestinal obstruction is extremely uncommon during pregnancy. According to Baker et al. (1953) the incidence varies from 0.0014 to 0.0034 per cent. Smith and Bartlett (1940) found only one case in over 66,000 deliveries. Hansen (1941) collected 84 cases from the literature.