Gunshot wound to the pregnant uterus: case report

• Main Authors: Humberto Osnaya-Moreno (Author), Tahitiana Abelina Zaragoza Salas (Author), Jorge Armando Escoto Gomez (Author), Marco Antonio Mondragon Chimal (Author), Maria De Lourdes Torres Castaneda (Author), Mauro Jimenez Flores (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Federação Brasileira das Sociedades de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia, 2013-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Crime and violence have become a public health problem. Pregnant women have not been the exception and gunshot injuries occupy an important place as a cause of trauma. An important fact is that pregnant women, who suffer trauma, are special patients because pregnancy causes physiological and anatomi...