OBJECTIVE The construction of a predictive model that improves the estimation of the fetal weight (EFW). STUDY DESIGN a comparative, descriptive study. One hundred forty pregnant women were recruited at two-stage sample in health department in Spain. They were classified in four groups depending on the pre-gestational BMI. Fetal weight at term was estimated by ultrasound at 33-35 weeks (EFW40...

“Locked twins” is a rare event occurring in about 1 every 1000 twin births. A 21-year-old primigravida with 31-week pregnancy was admitted for delivery. The head of the first locked to chin of second at top the symphysis pubis. Caesarean section performed allowing delivery both dead twins. Twins gestations breech presentation raise index suspicion potential locked twin. However, managemen...

BACKGROUND Two cases of normal pregnancies and deliveries after whole craniospinal irradiation (WCSI) are described, and whether the ovaries can be left out of the WCSI field by identifying ovarian position using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is determined. MATERIALS AND METHODS The distance between the upper edge of the pubic symphysis and the central part of the ovary was measured on MRI...

Plate fixation, the conventional treatment for traumatic symphysis pubis disruption, carries the risk of implant failure and demands extensive exposure. The goal of the present study was to evaluate the outcome of dynamic fixation with the Endobutton CL, which has a long successful record in anterior cruciate ligament reconstructions. Twenty-one APC-II injuries were treated from January 2006 to...

VOL. 71-B. No. 5. NOVEMBER 1989 to stabilise the shoulder. They are then removed and mobilisation is begun. The remaining part of the fixator is removed when the fracture has united. Prophylactic antibiotics are given for the first 24 hours. Patients and results. We have treated two patients by the technique described. The first, a man of 19, had the injury shown in Figure 2 ; the reduction is ...

A mechanistic link has been suggested between cam-type femoroacetabular impingement and increased stress on the symphysis pubis. This retrospective study was conducted to determine whether there is an increased prevalence of osteitis pubis, as evidenced by imaging, in patients with femoroacetabular impingement compared with age-matched control subjects. Search of a radiologic database of a larg...

THE ELONGATION OF THE CERVIX DURING LABOUR. In a communication to this Society, entitled (< A Study of Two Mesial Vertical Sections of the Female Pelvis,"1 it was pointed out by Dr A. R. Simpson and myself that, during labour, the pubic triangle?i.e., all in front, and inclusive of the anterior vaginal wall?is drawn up. The proof known then for this was given fully in that paper, and need not b...

The treatment of pediatric maxillofacial fractures is unique due to the psychological, physiological, developmental, and anatomical characteristics of children. Method. This case report describes the management of symphysis fracture of mandible in a 5-year-old boy. The fracture was treated by acrylic splint with circummandibular wiring. Results. The splint was removed after 3 weeks. The patient...

BACKGROUND Osteitis pubis is an aseptic painful inflammatory condition of the symphysis pubis, surrounding muscles, and tendons. It was first described in 1924 in patients who had suprapubic surgery. Inflammation and trauma have been attributed to be causative factors in previous individual case reports and small case series. Osteitis pubis is frequently misdiagnosed and is difficult to treat o...

Anterior pelvic ring disruptions are often associated with injuries to the genitourinary structures with the potential for considerable resultant morbidity. Herniation of the bladder into the symphyseal region after injury with subsequent entrapment upon reduction of the symphyseal diastasis has seldom been reported in the literature. We report such a case involving bladder herniation and subse...