INCARCERATED TERM GRAVID UTERUS IN INCISIONAL HERNIA AS A RARE COMPLICATION OF REPEATED CESAREAN SECTIONS.
- MBBCH Tanta university Egypt, MD Ain shams university Egypt.
- MBBCH Mansoura University Egypt, MD Alazhar University Egypt, PHD Alazhar University Egypt.
- Alahly Hospital Khamis Mushate, Ksa.2006
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Incisional hernia of the anterior abdominal wall with recurrent cesarean sections is common but gravid uterus herniating into the sac is rare. Even rarer is the gravid uterus being incarcerated in the hernia sac. The authors present an interesting obstetric challenge where in a 35years pregnant women un booked with previous 3 cesarean sections before ,presented with 37weeks pregnancy associated with severely pendulous abdomen and sever tenderness on touch on examination ,it was severely incarcerated uterus with sever dextrorotation in incisional hernia sac.
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[Ebtessam Saad Hassanain and Adel Awad Elsayed. (2018); INCARCERATED TERM GRAVID UTERUS IN INCISIONAL HERNIA AS A RARE COMPLICATION OF REPEATED CESAREAN SECTIONS. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 6 (Mar). 71-73] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com
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