Unilateral femoral fracture in a low birth weight infant: a case report.

نویسندگان

  • Young Sun Kim
  • Hyo Sang Han
  • Jae Hong Sang
چکیده

Femoral fractures due to birth trauma are an extremely rare but important birth injury. While vaginal breech delivery, although rare, can cause femur fracture, abdominal breech delivery is not expected to cause fracture. Here we report on a low birth weight infant who was delivered by cesarean section for breech presentation at 30 1/7 weeks of gestation and sustained a unilateral fracture of the femoral shaft.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Journal of Nippon Medical School = Nippon Ika Daigaku zasshi

دوره 82 2  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2015