V. Zhemchuzhnikov. A case of long-term retention of the fetal head in the uterine cavity after decapitation. (Protocol of the meeting of the obstetric-gynecological society in Kiev; year 5, volume 5. Issues 9 and 10)

Abstract

The author gives a detailed history of a patient suffering from a tumor emanating from the region of the sacral bone, the size of a child's head, dense fibrous consistency, so much narrowed the anterior-posterior size of the pelvis that the last one was barely 2 - ctm. Due to such a contraction, at the 6th birth, the subsequent head could not be removed, and, after decapitation, was left in the uterine cavity; three months later, the patient was admitted to the clinic of prof. Rake, and in the continuation of this time the bones of the skull of the detained head were arbitrarily protruded, which was accompanied by a feverish state.