Re: Sometimes breeches are just meant to be born vaginally.

From: Bernard Cristalli (bcrist@club-internet.fr)
Fri May 30 11:01:57 2008


Locked twins are only supposed to happen in monoamniotic twin pregnancies. These pregnancies are rare, hence the locked twins. B

John Robertson MD a écrit : > At Fri, 30 May 2008, Dr. Bülent Potur wrote:
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>> 2) a 69 twin 9 coming first.Then locked twins.
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> I find this second case interesting. I have always taught the med
> students and residents to be wary of locked twins, but when pushed I
> have to admit that:
> 1) I have never seen locked twins
> 2) I have never met someone who has seen locked twins
> 3) I have never met someone who has met someone who has seen locked
> twins
> This brings me to the question - how common is this? Does anyone have a
> number they can quote as an incidence?
>
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