Open AccessEpisiotomy
Author(s) -
V. Gruzdev
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
kazanskij medicinskij žurnal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2587-9359
pISSN - 0368-4814
DOI - 10.17816/kazmj52936
Subject(s) - episiotomy , medicine , obstetrics and gynaecology , obstetrics , gynecology , pregnancy , biology , genetics
On the extensive material of the Amsterdam clinic van Tongeren (Zeit. F. Geb. u. Gyn., Bd. LXXXIX. H. I) convinced that the obstetrician in most cases is not able to say whether a woman in labor will have a perineal rupture or not ... Further, he found that septic diseases after a preventive episiotomy occur just as often, even more often than after perineal ruptures, and equally does not guarantee episiotomy against consecutive scar pain.