Degloving bowel injury following second trimester pregnancy termination in the era of modern obstetrics: a case report

Degloving injury to the bowel following uterine instrumentation is a rare complication of second trimester abortion. Unsafe abortion practices can lead to such complications adding on the maternal mortality and morbidity. Here we present a case of 19-year-old unmarried girl who had undergone medical abortion and sustained decapitation of the fetal head during breech delivery which necessitated instrumentation for its retrieval leading to perforation and degloving bowel injury