Gunshot wound to the pregnant uterus: case report

Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia

Humberto Osnaya-moreno¹  Tahitiana Abelina Zaragoza Salas¹  Jorge Armando Escoto Gomez¹  Marco Antonio Mondragon Chimal¹  Maria De Lourdes Torres Castaneda¹  Mauro Jimenez Flores¹ 

[1] ,Centro Médico Licenciado Adolfo López Mateos Servicio de Cirugía General Toluca Estado de México

关键词: Wounds;    gunshot;    Pregnant women;    Wounds and injuries;    Uterus;    Abdomen;    Case reports;    Ferimentos por arma de fogo;    Gestantes;    Ferimentos e lesões;    Útero;    Abdome;    Relatos de casos;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0100-72032013000900008

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

Crime and violence have become a public health problem. Pregnant women have not been the exception and gunshot injuries occupy an important place as a cause of trauma. An important fact is that pregnant women, who suffer trauma, are special patients because pregnancy causes physiological and anatomical changes. Management of these patients should be multidisciplinary, by the general surgeon, the obstetrician and the neonatologist. However, even trauma referral centers could neither have the staff nor the ideal training for these specific cases. In this context we present the following case.

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