Postmortem assessment of labor from changes in the skull and brain in fetuses and newborn infants
Vlasiuk, V.V.; Lobzin, I.V.; Nesmeianov, A.A.
Arkhiv Patologii 76(3): 74-79
2014
ISSN/ISBN: 0004-1955 PMID: 25306615 Document Number: 672491
The paper gives data on the ways of identifying the pattern of head insertion, wire point, the degree of head flexion and extension, asynclitism, and configuration from the fetal and neonatal skull. The findings are important for the assessment of the course of labor and the quality of its management and for the diagnosis of birth injury. Emphasis is laid on the significance of brain compression in the genesis of fetal asphyxia.