Fetal closed head injuries following maternal motor vehicle accident: A clinicopathologic case report.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale

The clinicopathologic appearance of fetal closed head injury (FCHI) due to a maternal motor vehicle accident has not been fully investigated because of its extreme rarity.

Patients concern

A 22-year-old woman at 31 weeks of gestation was riding in the front passenger seat of a car, and another rightward-turning car struck the right side of her vehicle.

Diagnosis

Uterine injury with placental abruption was strongly suspected.

Intervention

A live female infant in breech presentation was delivered by emergency caesarean section.

Outcomes

Although the female infant was and showed no evidence of trauma on her body surface. She exhibited a convulsion on the day of birth, and subsequent ultrasonography revealed possible intracranial hemorrhage. Althou

SUBMITTER: Nishida N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6221710 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature