[Placenta percreta--surgical treatment and personal experience]

This is a case report of a female patient with placenta percreta in whom pregnancy was terminated in the XXVII gestational week. The disease was not diagnosed during pregnancy which had a normal course; the suspicion appeared during the third stage of the delivery period and it was confirmed during the operation and subsequent histopathological finding. As profuse bleeding occurred, urgent laparotomy with hysterectomy and unilateral adnexectomy were performed. Thirteen hours after the delivery the infant died.