OBSTETRICAL PARALYSIS

Obstetrical Paralysis Due to Ischaemia of the Spinal Cord.

Obstetrical paralysis after a difficult labour is usually attributed to tearing or stretching of the nerve trunks of the brachial plexus or to avulsion of nerve roots from the spinal cord. Injury to the cord itself, however, is not excessively rare (Ford, 1960), the principal findings at necropsy being subdural or extradural haemorrhage, laceration or rupture of the cord, or a haematomyelia. In...

Deformity of the elbow joint as a sequel to Erb's obstetrical paralysis.

The discovery some years ago of several instances of posterior dislocation of the radial head in children who had been treated in infancy for Erb’s obstetrical paralysis prompted a survey of the literature on associated elbow deformities. References were not found to be plentiful and in many the condition was dismissed as an uncommon and unimportant complication apparently confined to the older...

I-46: Obstetrical Doppler

Accurate assessment of gestational age, fetal growth, and the detection of fetal and placental abnormalities are major benefits of sonography. Color Doppler can be used to assist in the identification of vascular architecture, detection of vascular pathology and visualization of blood flow changes associated with physiologic processes and disease states. The clinical applications of obstetrical...

Obstetrical Practice

Gynæcological and Obstetrical Anatomy