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Waiting for attention and care: birthing accounts of women in rural Tanzania who developed obstetric fistula as an outcome of labour

BACKGROUND: Obstetric fistula is a physically and socially disabling obstetric complication that affects about 3,000 women in Tanzania every year. The fistula, an opening that forms between the vagina and the bladder and/or the rectum, is most frequently caused by unattended prolonged labour, often...

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Autores principales: Mselle, Lilian T, Kohi, Thecla W, Mvungi, Abu, Evjen-Olsen, Bjørg, Moland, Karen Marie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3221614/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22013991
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2393-11-75