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ACUTE INVERSION OF THE UTERUS AND ITS MANAGEMENT
Author(s) -
Campbell John,
Pash June,
Walters William A. W.
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1972.tb47424.x
Subject(s) - inversion (geology) , uterus , incidence (geometry) , medicine , complication , obstetrics , general surgery , gynecology , surgery , geology , seismology , mathematics , geometry , tectonics
A case of acute puerperal inversion of the uterus is described. Comments are made on Its ætiology and diagnosis, and a suggested scheme of management is presented. The case is published because of its rarity, and because of the importance of prompt diagnosis and management in preventing maternal death. Puerperal inversion of the uterus is of sufficiently rare occurrence that the average practitioner Is unable to gain experience of its management in his own practice. Reports in the literature place the incidence of this complication at from 1: 6,000 to 1: 400,000. This case was the first recorded at the Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital, Melbourne, for four years, and in the decade from 1961 to 1971 there were two cases, an incidence of 1: 23,076.