Eight patients managed for bowel injury following induced abortion were studied for the pattern of morbidity and mortality. The patients were aged 18–39 years. Three of them were married, five were single. Two of the cases were detected at the time of termination of pregnancy. The interval from termination of pregnancy to presentation in hospital was two days to two weeks in the other six patients. Injury was in the ileum in three, jejunum in two and the sigmoid colon in three. Twenty surgical interventions were performed for primary treatment and management of complications. Major complications were abdominal wound dehiscence (5), faecal fistula (2) and postoperative diarrhoea (1).The duration of hospitalisation at the first admission ran...
Introduction: Secondary abdominal pregnancies usually develop as a result of a tubal abortion, tub...
Abstract Background Due to a lack of relevant data on induced abortions in the Democratic Republic o...
Abortion is considered taboo In our society so it is unreasonable to expect reliable data about abor...
Eight patients managed for bowel injury following induced abortion were studied for the pattern of ...
BACKGROUND: Bowel perforation though rarely reported is a serious complication of induced abortion,...
Bowel perforation though rarely reported is a serious complication of induced abortion, which is oft...
Unsafe abortions represent a preventable yet major cause of maternal mortality and morbidity in Indi...
In Cameroon as in most African countries, the law on abortion is restrictive. Consequently most unwa...
Background: Traumatic intestinal digestive damage after abortion by endo-uterine manoeuvres are not ...
In Morocco abortion is illegal; this is why the termination of pregnancy is performed in unsafe cond...
An unwanted pregnancy may lead to induced abortion that means willful termination of pregnancy befor...
Miss E.N. a 19-year old nullipara presented at the Accidents and Emergency unit of the Ebonyi State ...
Unsafe, induced abortion is one of the three major causes of maternal mortality in Nigeria. Importan...
Miss E.N. a 19-year old nullipara presented at the Accidents and Emergency unit of the Ebonyi State ...
This is a retrospective study of 104 cases of complicated induced abortion, seen at the University o...
Introduction: Secondary abdominal pregnancies usually develop as a result of a tubal abortion, tub...
Abstract Background Due to a lack of relevant data on induced abortions in the Democratic Republic o...
Abortion is considered taboo In our society so it is unreasonable to expect reliable data about abor...
Eight patients managed for bowel injury following induced abortion were studied for the pattern of ...
BACKGROUND: Bowel perforation though rarely reported is a serious complication of induced abortion,...
Bowel perforation though rarely reported is a serious complication of induced abortion, which is oft...
Unsafe abortions represent a preventable yet major cause of maternal mortality and morbidity in Indi...
In Cameroon as in most African countries, the law on abortion is restrictive. Consequently most unwa...
Background: Traumatic intestinal digestive damage after abortion by endo-uterine manoeuvres are not ...
In Morocco abortion is illegal; this is why the termination of pregnancy is performed in unsafe cond...
An unwanted pregnancy may lead to induced abortion that means willful termination of pregnancy befor...
Miss E.N. a 19-year old nullipara presented at the Accidents and Emergency unit of the Ebonyi State ...
Unsafe, induced abortion is one of the three major causes of maternal mortality in Nigeria. Importan...
Miss E.N. a 19-year old nullipara presented at the Accidents and Emergency unit of the Ebonyi State ...
This is a retrospective study of 104 cases of complicated induced abortion, seen at the University o...
Introduction: Secondary abdominal pregnancies usually develop as a result of a tubal abortion, tub...
Abstract Background Due to a lack of relevant data on induced abortions in the Democratic Republic o...
Abortion is considered taboo In our society so it is unreasonable to expect reliable data about abor...