[Emergency cerclage and twin pregnancy].
This report describes emergency cerclage on dilated and effaced cervices prior to 24 weeks' gestation with membranes bulging into the vagina in a primigravida with twin pregnancy. This operation enabled us to obtain an extension of the pregnancy of 11.2 weeks and the survival of the two foeti.
Bognoni
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Divisione di Ostetricia e Ginecologia, Ospedale Tiberio Evoli, ASL n. 11, Regione Calabria.
Quartuccio
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D000328:Adult; D002584:Cervix Uteri / Q000601:surgery*; D004630:Emergencies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D011262:Pregnancy Trimester, Second; D011272:Pregnancy, Multiple; D014427:Twins; D002581:Uterine Cervical Incompetence / Q000601:surgery*