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Third-trimester colectomy for severe ulcerative colitis. A case report
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, United States Army Hospital Nurnberg, APO New York, NY 09742.
The Journal of Reproductive Medicine
|November 1, 1987
Abstract:
Despite steroid therapy and total parenteral nutrition, a patient with severe ulcerative colitis developed a colon perforation with peritonitis that necessitated colectomy at 28 weeks' gestation. The pregnancy was left intact; the postoperative vaginal delivery was uneventful.