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S Sosnowski1, T Malewicz, J Tywoniuk

  • 1Oddział Paraplegii Pourazowej, 10 WSKzP SPZOZ, Bydgoszcz.

Ortopedia, Traumatologia, Rehabilitacja
|November 23, 2007
PubMed

Pregnancy co-existing with a complete transverse spinal cord lesion is a very rare case not commonly encountered in everyday clinical practice. The management of pregnancy, delivery, and puerperium poses great difficulties requiring interdisciplinary solutions. The authors present the course of delivery and puerperium in a woman with transverse SCI following traumatic injury to Th4-Th5.

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