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Title: Complications of unsafe abortion: a case study and the need for abortion law reform in Nigeria.
Author: Boniface A. Oye-Adeniran
Publication: Reproductive Health Matters (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 2002
Publisher: Reproductive Health Matters
Volume: 10 Issue: 19 Page: 18(4)Distributed by Thompson Gale
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Abstract Complications of unsafe abortion account for 30-40% of maternal deaths in Nigeria. This paper reports a case of unsafe abortion by dilatation and curettage, carried out by a medical practitioner in a private clinic on a 20-year-old single girl in Lagos, Nigeria. The girl was 16 weeks pregnant. She suffered complications consisting of perforation of the vaginal wall through the utero-vesical space into the abdominal cavity with gangrenous loops of small intestine herniating through it. Information was obtained from her case notes and the operating theatre register. She had a resection and anastomosis of the small intestine and had to remain in hospital, where she made a full recovery, for two weeks. Unsafe abortion is fraught with many...
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