Publications by authors named "B Zurlinden"

Objective: Risk factors for severe perineal lacerations are nowadays well-known and they include operative vaginal deliveries and extractions in occiput posterior (OP) positions. The aim of this study was to assess whether OP position increases the risk for anal sphincter injury when compared with occiput anterior (OA) positions in operative deliveries using Thierry's spatulas.

Methods: Retrospective study of 163 extractions with Thierry's spatulas over a five-year period (January 2000 to December 2005) performed in a general hospital.

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Objective: Assisted delivery is necessary in many obstetrical conditions but is involved in maternal and foetal complications. The legal pressure and the commendable aim consisting in less neonatal morbidity and mortality have called forth a reflection about the type and the way of instrumental foetal extraction. In 1950, Thierry had already felt this problem and he invented spatula to replace obstetrical forceps.

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Sixteen (16) cases of delayed births have been reported in the literature. All of these patients obtained at least one live child. This method can, therefore, be suggested in cases of premature birth after less than 28 weeks of amenorrhea for patients who present with a multiple, pluriamniotic pregnancy.

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Achondrogenesis is a rare case of fetal skeletal dysplasia. Achondrogenesis in lethal. That is a autosomal recessive fetal skeletal dysplasia.

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