Parvin describes a case in which
death occurred on the third day. Browne quotes Parry as saying
that there is one twin pregnancy in 23 extrauterine conceptions.
He gives 24 cases of twin conception, one of which was uterine,
the other extrauterine, and says that of 7 in the third month,
with no operation, the mother died in 5. Of 6 cases of from four
and a half to seven months' duration, 2 lived, and in 1 case at
the fifth month there was an intrauterine fetus delivered which
lived. Of 11 such cases at nine months, 6 mothers lived and 6
intrauterine fetuses lived. In 6 of these cases no operation was
performed. In one case the mother died, but both the uterine and
the extrauterine conceptions lived. In another the mother and
intrauterine fetus died, and the extrauterine fetus lived. Wilson
a gives an instance of a woman delivered of a healthy female
child at eight months which lived. The after-birth came away
without assistance, but the woman still presented every
appearance of having another child within her, although
examination by the vagina revealed none. Wilson called Chatard in
consultation, and from the fetal heart-sounds and other symptoms
they decided that there was another pregnancy wholly
extrauterine.
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