[Problems and results of skull x-ray following vacuum extraction (author's transl)]

The vacuum extraction supplies the forceps nearly complete on the IInd Department of obstetrics and gynecology Vienna in the last years. Skull X-ray of 104 newborns following vacuum extraction and of 101 spontaneous delivered newborns are examined on the incidence of fractures, fracture-fissures, elevations and widening of skull sutures. Early pathological findings are rigid criteria for the possible danger due to a method of operative delivery but we have no typical late damage after vacuum extraction or forceps delivery, we don't find in spontaneous born children too.