title: Blunt abdominal trauma to a pregnant woman resulting in a child with hemiplegic spastic cerebral palsy and permanent eye damage.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  In today's life trauma is a common and important complication of pregnancy and remains one of the major contributors to maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality.
  
  
  METHODS
  The authors reported a case of 4 years old child with hemiplegic spastic cerebral palsy and permanent left eye damage due to antenatal trauma. He was an off spring to a 33 years old woman gravida 6 para 5 from western Sudan, who sustained a domestic blunt abdominal trauma during her routine daily activities. The abdominal trauma occurred during the third trimester at 36th week gestation of the pregnancy when the mother hit herself by the woody part of an axe non intentionally.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The findings from this case conclude that relatively minor trauma can have significant adverse effects on the fetus and can be devastating.
authors: Elmuntasir
authors: E
authors: Taha
authors: Khalid
authors: K
authors: Nasralla
authors: Abdulrahman
authors: A
authors: Khalid
authors: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, Kassala University, P,O, Box 496, Kassala, Sudan. abuzianab73@yahoo.com.
authors: Abdelaziem A
authors: AA
authors: Ali
mesh_terms: D000007:Abdominal Injuries / Q000150:complications*; D000328:Adult; D002547:Cerebral Palsy / Q000209:etiology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy