[Failure of a conservative treatment of a placenta accreta]

E Guillot1, P Raynal, F Fuchs

  • 1Service de gynécologie-obstétrique, hôpital Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, avenue Denfert-Rochereau, 75674 Paris cedex 14, France. eug_g2000@yahoo.fr

We report a case of placenta accreta left fully in situ during a cesarean section. Postoperative courses were complicated with a thrombosis of the right external iliac artery after embolization and with a pyometra needing n hysterectomy. We discuss the risks of such conservative treatment of a placenta accreta, compared with classical ablation.

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