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Surgical Emergencies During Pregnancy

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Acute abdomen can be defined as “any serious acute intra-abdominal condition attended by pain, tenderness, and muscular rigidity, and for which emergency surgery must be considered” [1]. Acute abdomen during pregnancy, without an obstetric cause, occurs in 1/500–635 pregnancies [2]. For some conditions, the predisposing factors are known in both the general and the pregnant population, such as acute cholecystitis. In other, such as acute appendicitis, the predisposing factors are not known.

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Augustin, G. (2017). Surgical Emergencies During Pregnancy. In: Di Saverio, S., Catena, F., Ansaloni, L., Coccolini, F., Velmahos, G. (eds) Acute Care Surgery Handbook. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15341-4_27

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