Citation

McNEIL RJ. Calif. Med. 1955; 83(1): 30-33.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1955, California Medical Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

14390007

PMCID

PMC1532498

Abstract

Women who have been injured should be examined for possible gynecological injury within 24 hours of the accident. Injuries to pregnant women do not usually cause an obstetrical crisis. When such an event does occur, there is positive evidence which relates it to the accident if there was such relationship. Metrorrhagia and menorrhagia are common sequelae of physical and psychological injury, but they are of temporary nature in cases in which there is no demonstrable pathologic change upon pelvic examination. Uterine prolapse, cystocele and rectocele are not caused by a single injury except in extremely rare instances. When vaginal vault injury has occurred as a result of a single injury, there is plentiful evidence of severe tissue damage.

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