IMR Press / CEOG / Volume 35 / Issue 1 / pii/1630638175210-1344888666

Clinical and Experimental Obstetrics & Gynecology (CEOG) is published by IMR Press from Volume 47 Issue 1 (2020). Previous articles were published by another publisher on a subscription basis, and they are hosted by IMR Press on imrpress.com as a courtesy and upon agreement with S.O.G.

Case Report
Anaesthetic burns
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1 North Middlesex University Hospital, London (UK)
2 Department of Ostetrics and Gynaecology, Brooklyn Hospital Centre, New York (USA)
Clin. Exp. Obstet. Gynecol. 2008, 35(1), 71–72;
Published: 10 March 2008
Abstract

Patients frequently complain of numbness after surgery via the Pfannensteil incision. The two cases in this report demonstrate clear evidence of impaired sensory perception following such an incision. While this is often regarded as a trivial complication, a brief warning to patients should help avoid such superficial burns.
Keywords
Transverse suprapubic incision
Pfannensteil incision
Superficial burn
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