Occipital osteodiastasis (OOD) is a prominent traumatic lesion in neonates born by breech, during delivery of after coming head. The lesion consists of traumatic separation of the cartilaginous joint between the squamous and lateral portion of the occipital bone resulting in a posterior fossa subdural haemorrhage associated with laceration of the cerebellum. We report a term female baby with OO...

While most obstetricians are familiar with fracture of the clavicle in newborns during birth, an unlucky minority of obstetricians has encountered long-bone fractures in newborns as well. This complication is traumatic not only for the neonate, but also for the family and the obstetrician; it is also difficult to explain. Fortunately, the long-term prognosis for fracture of the long bones is ex...

BACKGROUND: There is now good evidence about the management options for pregnant women with a breech presentation (buttocks or feet rather than head-first) at term; external cephalic version (ECV) - the turning of a breech baby to a head-down position and/or planned caesarean section (CS). Each of these options has benefits and risks and the relative importance of these vary for each woman, sub...

backgroundpregnancy and delivery are among the most stressful events in women’s life . breech presentation is defined as a fetus in a longitudinal lie with the buttocks or feet closest to the cervix. this occurs in 3-4% of all deliveries.the risk for perinatal mortality was 1 in 300 for planned breech deliveries.some conventional non-surgical therapies for breech presentation are available. acu...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effectiveness of a decision aid for women with a breech presentation compared with usual care. DESIGN Randomised controlled trial. SETTING Tertiary obstetric hospitals offering external cephalic version (ECV). POPULATION Women with a singleton pregnancy were diagnosed antenatally with a breech presentation at term, and were clinically eligible for ECV. METHODS...