The Back Alley Revisited: Sepsis after Attempted Self-Induced Abortion
While unsafe abortions have become rare in the United States, the practice persists. We present a 24-year-old female with a 21-week twin gestation who presented to the emergency department with complications of an attempted self-induced abortion. Her complicated clinical course included sepsis, chor...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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eScholarship Publishing, University of California
2009-11-01
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Series: | Western Journal of Emergency Medicine |
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Online Access: | http://escholarship.org/uc/item/2mx5w2gr |