leni in the present article. Full-term ectopic gestation Only about 1 per cent of extra-uterine gestations reach full term j have recently observed and operated on the following two cases : Case 1.?Hindu woman, aged 28, admitted 0n 13th April, 1931, with a history of being at full term and having been in labour for three days. On examination, a foetus could be felt in the abdomen, but a tumour ...

Many women in resource-poor settings lack access to reliable gestational age assessment because they do not know their last menstrual period; there is no ultrasound (US) and methods of newborn gestational age dating are not practised by birth attendants. A bespoke multiple-measures model was developed to predict the expected date of delivery determined by US. The results are compared with both ...

The corona mortis is defined as the vascular connection between the obturator and external iliac systems [1]. Usually, the obturator vessels originate from the internal iliac vessels and traverse the lateral pelvic wall along with the obturator nerve. There are marked variations of these vessels in relation to their origin, course and the distance from the pubic symphysis [2]. The name “corona ...

Parity indicators in human skeletal material are highly desirable yet elusive. In this study, the relationships of dorsal pits and pubic tubercle elongation to parity are investigated in a sample of 148 modern female sets of pubic bones with associated birth information. The elongation of the pubic tubercle shows no significant correlation with number of births, but instead is associated with t...

We studied changes in the width of the symphysis pubis in 32 women examined serially by ultrasound during labor. Measurements were made at the superior border of the symphysis and at its narrowest breadth in the latent phase, the active phase, and the second stage of labor. There was a significant increase in the width of the symphysis between the first and second stages of labor at both measur...