"AN UNUSUAL RESULT OF ABORTION."

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Cystic hygroma--an unusual cause of induced abortion.

A male infant was diagnosed prenatally at 20 weeks of gestation with posterior cervical cystic hygroma. The mother was a 31-year-old gravida, who had an otherwise normal systemic examination. A therapeutic abortion was arranged and fetus was aborted. Sonographic findings were confirmed on examination of aborted fetus

An Unusual Case of Abortion Treated by Curetting

By D. R. LEWIS, m.b., f.r.c.s. (Edin.) Civil Surgeon, Maubin A Burmese woman, aged 39, was brought to the civil hospital, Maubin, at 8 p.m. on the 17th March, 1938, with the history that she had had vague pains in the lower abdomen for the past 6 weeks and that there was slight loss of blood per vaginam during all this period. She was said to be in the fifth month of her eleventh pregnancy. It ...

Plesiomonas shigelloides: An Unusual Cause of Septic Abortion

Plesiomonas shigelloides, the only oxidase-positive Enterobacteriaceae, is an inhabitant of freshwater and estuary ecosystems. We report the first possible case of Plesiomonas shigelloides-induced septic abortion. This 24-year-old female was successfully treated by dilatation and curettage as well as antimicrobial therapy.

An Unusual Case of Acute Epiglottic Abscess

A 48 year old man presented to our outpatient department with the history of absolute dysphagia, and fever for two days. On examination patient was febrile with drooling of saliva. Oropharynx was minimally congested. Indirect laryngoscopy revealed odematous epiglottis with pus pointing over the lingual surface. Radiography of soft tissue, neck lateral view, showed the thumb sign which suggeste...