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Case Reports
. 2022 Mar 11;9(1):88-91.
doi: 10.1080/23320885.2022.2047051. eCollection 2022.

A neonate with a facial congenital pressure injury: a case report

Nanouk van der Sluis  1 , Britt Theodora Wilhelmina Ten Hoope  1 , Tess Bosch  2 , Marie Elise Wiesman  2 , Ute Schmidbauer  3 , Hinne Albert Rakhorst  1   3
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A neonate with a facial congenital pressure injury: a case report

Nanouk van der Sluis et al. Case Reports Plast Surg Hand Surg. .

Abstract

This is the first case report of a facial congenital pressure injury in a full-term neonate, due to pressure on the neonate's head between a large leiomyoma and the mother's pelvic bone.

Keywords: Pressure injury; congenital; facial congenital injury; neonate.

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Figures

Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). (A) ultrasound at 10 weeks of gestation. The outer edges of the leiomyoma are marked by yellow crosses. (B) MRI at 15 weeks of gestation. The leiomyoma’s width is marked by the green line.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
The healing progress of the congenital pressure injury. (A) Directly postpartum. (B) Two days postpartum. (C) Three weeks postpartum. (D) Two months postpartum.
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