Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia (Sep 2013)

Gunshot wound to the pregnant uterus: case report

  • Humberto Osnaya-Moreno,
  • Tahitiana Abelina Zaragoza Salas,
  • Jorge Armando Escoto Gomez,
  • Marco Antonio Mondragon Chimal,
  • Maria De Lourdes Torres Castaneda,
  • Mauro Jimenez Flores

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/S0100-72032013000900008
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 35, no. 9
pp. 427 – 431

Abstract

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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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