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BMJ Case Reports 2008; doi:10.1136/bcr.06.2008.0154
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A gibbus in puerperium

  1. Rakesh Biswas,
  2. Vijay Baghel,
  3. Shiv Shanker
  1. People’s College of Medical Sciences, Bhopal, 462010, India
  1. rakesh7biswas{at}gmail.com
  • Published 20 November 2008

A 20-year-old woman started experiencing severe low back ache during the second month of her fourth pregnancy. She continued to have intermittent backache with low grade fever and had a spontaneous vaginal delivery in the eighth month.

The infant died 10 h after birth.

Four days after delivery she noticed a deformity in her back (fig 1).

Figure 1 Physical appearance of patient’s back.

On examination she had a lump …

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