Complete uterine inversion during caesarean section: A case report

Inversion of the uterus through the uterine lower segment incision during a caesarean section is an extremely rare obstetric incident. It consists, though, an emergency complication that is potentially life-threatening, especially in cases of prolonged inversion, because haemodynamic instability and...

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Autores principales: Vavilis, Dimitrios, Tsolakidis, Dimitrios, Athanatos, Dimitrios, Goutzioulis, Antonios, Bontis, John N
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2533299/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18752657
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-127
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author Vavilis, Dimitrios
Tsolakidis, Dimitrios
Athanatos, Dimitrios
Goutzioulis, Antonios
Bontis, John N
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Tsolakidis, Dimitrios
Athanatos, Dimitrios
Goutzioulis, Antonios
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description Inversion of the uterus through the uterine lower segment incision during a caesarean section is an extremely rare obstetric incident. It consists, though, an emergency complication that is potentially life-threatening, especially in cases of prolonged inversion, because haemodynamic instability and shock may occur. Prompt diagnosis and immediate uterine reversion are the key actions in the management of this serious complication.
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spelling pubmed-25332992008-09-11 Complete uterine inversion during caesarean section: A case report Vavilis, Dimitrios Tsolakidis, Dimitrios Athanatos, Dimitrios Goutzioulis, Antonios Bontis, John N Cases J Case Report Inversion of the uterus through the uterine lower segment incision during a caesarean section is an extremely rare obstetric incident. It consists, though, an emergency complication that is potentially life-threatening, especially in cases of prolonged inversion, because haemodynamic instability and shock may occur. Prompt diagnosis and immediate uterine reversion are the key actions in the management of this serious complication. BioMed Central 2008-08-27 /pmc/articles/PMC2533299/ /pubmed/18752657 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-127 Text en Copyright © 2008 Vavilis et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Vavilis, Dimitrios
Tsolakidis, Dimitrios
Athanatos, Dimitrios
Goutzioulis, Antonios
Bontis, John N
Complete uterine inversion during caesarean section: A case report
title Complete uterine inversion during caesarean section: A case report
title_full Complete uterine inversion during caesarean section: A case report
title_fullStr Complete uterine inversion during caesarean section: A case report
title_full_unstemmed Complete uterine inversion during caesarean section: A case report
title_short Complete uterine inversion during caesarean section: A case report
title_sort complete uterine inversion during caesarean section: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2533299/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18752657
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-127
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