[Sociodemographic and medical features of abortion among underage people in Guadeloupe (French West Indies)].

Objective: In France, contraception is available for everybody; however, the number of abortion does not decrease, especially among young people. The aim of our study is to analyze, in the Guadeloupian context, the characteristics of underage people who ask for an abortion.

Methods: This retrospective study, analyses sociodemographic and medical characteristics of 129 teenagers, who had an abortion in 2010 in our abortion center.

[Illegal abortion with misoprostol in Guadeloupe].

Objectives: The aim of this study was to describe the typical profile, and to assess the motivations of women who underwent illegal abortion with misoprostol in Guadeloupe (French West Indies).

Materials And Methods: We conducted a 1-year prospective study on women who consulted after failure or complication of an illegal abortion with misoprostol.

Results: Fifty-two cases of illegal abortion with misoprostol were recorded.

[Morganella morganii and early-onset neonatal infection].

Unlabelled: Morganella morganii is an opportunistic gram-negative bacterium, resistant to ampicillin, and scarcely involved in early-onset neonatal sepsis.

Case Report: After a premature rupture of the membranes, a pregnant patient received prophylactic amoxicillin per os. She developed chorioamnionitis.

[What about partial subcutaneous symphysiotomy or Zarate's operation? Review of the literature].

This study is a review of the literature on Zarate's partial subcutaneous symphysiotomy. Unfortunately, this operation is now forgotten since many obstetricians in western countries and even those of developing countries feel that symphysiotomy is an obsolete obstetric procedure. Partial subcutaneous symphysiotomy is an operation intended to widen the maternal pelvis in order to enable vaginal delivery in the presence of moderate feto-pelvic disproportion.