Abortion induced by a foreign body with artificial perforation of the uterus, followed by sepsis, coma, necrosis of the uterus and hysterectomy. A case report

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 337-338

  Simetka, Ondrej ^a,c   Prochazka, Martin ^b   Huseyn Zade, Sevinj ^a   Revilla, Jane ^a  

^a Hospital Nacional Guido Valadares   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OLOMOUC   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OSTRAVA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Coma; Foreign body; Illegal abortion; Perforated uterus

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIPYRETIC AGENT; GENTAMICIN; METRONIDAZOLE; QUININE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRAIN MALARIA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMA; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEVER; FOREIGN BODY; HONEY; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INDUCED ABORTION; INTRAVENOUS ADMINISTRATION; NECROSIS; OLIGURIA; PELVIS ABSCESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; TIMOR-LESTE; UTERUS ISCHEMIA; UTERUS PERFORATION; WOUND DEHISCENCE; ADOLESCENT; LETTER; PATHOLOGY; PREGNANCY; UNWANTED PREGNANCY; UTERUS;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ADOLESCENT; COMA; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODIES; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; NECROSIS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, UNWANTED; SEPSIS; UTERINE PERFORATION; UTERUS;

EID: 70349768932     PISSN: 00048666     EISSN: 1479828X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-828X.2009.00992.x     Document Type: Article

References (1)

1. World Health Organization (WHO). Unsafe Abortion - Global and Regional Estimates of the Incidence of Unsafe Abortion and Associated Mortality in 2000, 4th edn. Geneva, Switzerland: WHO.