机构:
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Peiping Union Medical College, Peiping, China.Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Peiping Union Medical College, Peiping, China.
NICHOLSON J. EASTMAN
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机构:
[1] Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Peiping Union Medical College, Peiping, China.
It is well known that a slight amount of obliquity and rotation of the pregnant uterus is physiological. This fact is easily demonstrable at Caesarean section, when it may be observed that the adnexa on one side usually lie nearer the mid-line incision than those on the other. Primary torsion of the pregnant uterus of sufficient degree to arrest the uterine circulation and produce an acute abdominal calamity, constitutes in the human being, one of the rarest accidents of gestation.