. An American text-book of obstetrics. For practitioners and students. Fig. 368.—Prosopothoracopagus. Fig. 369.—Xiphopagus. Fig. 370.—Janiceps. after prolonged delay when attempts at artificial delivery, especially by version,have failed. By this time the fetus is commonly dead, and should be deliv-ered by embryotomy. But the practitioner must be on his guard againstfutile attempts to deliver an infant too large, even when mutilated, to passthrough the pelvis. The writer has seen in consultation practice severalmaternal deaths due to this cause. Premature Ossification of Cranium; Wormian Bones
. An American text-book of obstetrics. For practitioners and students. Fig. 368.—Prosopothoracopagus. Fig. 369.—Xiphopagus. Fig. 370.—Janiceps. after prolonged delay when attempts at artificial delivery, especially by version,have failed. By this time the fetus is commonly dead, and should be deliv-ered by embryotomy. But the practitioner must be on his guard againstfutile attempts to deliver an infant too large, even when mutilated, to passthrough the pelvis. The writer has seen in consultation practice severalmaternal deaths due to this cause. Premature Ossification of Cranium; Wormian Bones;f Large Heads; Mal-formations and Tumors of the Fetus.—No single rule of treatment can be laiddown for the management of these cases. Forceps, version, or some form ofembryotomy is usually demanded. Spontaneous labor, however, is possibleeven in cases of monstrous bulk in which delivery through the birth-canal wouldseem out of the question. Thus in double monsters joined loosely by the frontor back (xiphopagus, the Siamese twins; pygopagus, the Hungarian si
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