Spondylisthesis causing Difficult Labour

Difficult Case of Labour

patient to be a young, healthy and well-formed Bengali woman, the wife of a respectable and well-to-do zemindar. This was her fourth pregnane}', the previous three having been quite normal, and she was the mother of three healthy children. This pregnancy had advanced uneventfully to full-term; labour had set in and progressed naturally up to the point referred to above. Protruding from the vulv...

A Handbook on Difficult Labour

A Handbook on Difficult Labour

Vallecular cyst causing a difficult intubation.

Editor—Vallecular cysts are a rare cause of difficulty in intubating the trachea. We describe a case of difficult intubation in a patient, after inhalation induction, for examination under anaesthesia of an infected vallecular cyst. A 31-yr-old male presented with a year-long history of dysphagia, anorexia, and 13 kg weight loss. He had a 3 week history of shortness of breath on exertion and as...

Acardiac acephalic twin causing obstructed labour.