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The Back Alley Revisited: Sepsis after Attempted Self-Induced Abortion

While unsafe abortions have become rare in the United States, the practice persists. We present a 24-year-old female with a 21-week twin gestation who presented to the emergency department with complications of an attempted self-induced abortion. Her complicated clinical course included sepsis, chor...

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Autores principales: Saultes, Teresa A, Devita, Diane, Heiner, Jason D.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2791734/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20046250