Comprises a range of conditions, including non-optimal contractions and cervical dilation, fetal factors such as position, e.g., shoulder dystocia, and macrosomia (heavier than average birth weight)

Munro Kerr's operative obstetrics.

On the management of difficult labour in some cases of abnormal pelvis / by James Armstrong.

Dystocie par tumeurs du rectum ... / par Madamoiselle Tchébotarevsky.

L'hystérectomie abdominale totale dans les cas de dystocie par fibromes utérins / par G. Eustache.

On dystocia with dorsal displacement of the arm / by Alexander Russell Simpson.

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Dystocia

Works from the collections

Munro Kerr's operative obstetrics.

On the management of difficult labour in some cases of abnormal pelvis / by James Armstrong.

Dystocie par tumeurs du rectum ... / par Madamoiselle Tchébotarevsky.

L'hystérectomie abdominale totale dans les cas de dystocie par fibromes utérins / par G. Eustache.

On dystocia with dorsal displacement of the arm / by Alexander Russell Simpson.