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Perinatal Mortality

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Pathology of a Black African Population

Part of the book series: Current Topics in Pathology ((CT PATHOLOGY,volume 72))

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Abstract

Barawanath Hospital serves a large Black community in which there is malnutrition, ignorance and inadequate antenatal care. Owing to the inherent shape of the pelvis of the black female, there are a large number of cases of cephalo-pelvic disproportion which are rarely seen in more highly developed communities. As a result there are a large number of stillbirths, premature deliveries and neonatal deaths. These factors should theoretically produce a high incidence of cerebral birth injury (Shnier and Isaacson 1965).

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  1. The Laboratory, Baragwanath Hospital, Department of Anatomical Pathology, South African Institute for Medical Research, University of the Witwatersrand, Hospital Stredt, P.O. Box 1038, 2000, Johannesburg, RSA

    C. Isaacson (Professor)

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Isaacson, C. (1982). Perinatal Mortality. In: Pathology of a Black African Population. Current Topics in Pathology, vol 72. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-81798-4_8

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