title: Uterine rupture at term after uncomplicated hysteroscopic metroplasty.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  In patients with a prior uterine septum resection, uterine rupture during pregnancy has been reported with the use of energy sources or when complicated by perforation.
  
  
  METHODS
  A woman was found to have a uterine abnormality during her first pregnancy. After delivery, a septum was diagnosed and hysteroscopically incised using cold scissors without complication. Follow-up hysterosalpingogram showed a small residual septum. In her subsequent pregnancy, emergency cesarean after fetal bradycardia in early labor showed the placenta and fetus totally exteriorized through a cornua to cornua rupture of the fundus.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Uterine rupture during pregnancy after metroplasty is rare but may occur regardless of the method of metroplasty, absence of complications, or careful follow-up.
authors.affiliation: Slocum-Dickson Medical Group, PC, Utica, New York, USA. nangell@jaguar1.usouthal.edu
authors.forename: Norman F
authors.initials: NF
authors.lastname: Angell
authors.forename: Josefina
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tan Domingo
authors.forename: Naeem
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Siddiqi
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015907:Hysteroscopy; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D011247:Pregnancy; D011263:Pregnancy Trimester, Third; D014597:Uterine Rupture / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D014599:Uterus / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000601:surgery*