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

Nanouk van der Sluis; Britt Theodora Wilhelmina Ten Hoope; Tess Bosch; Marie Elise Wiesman; Ute Schmidbauer; Hinne Albert Rakhorst

doi:10.1080/23320885.2022.2047051

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

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

Authors

Nanouk van der Sluis¹, Britt Theodora Wilhelmina Ten Hoope¹, Tess Bosch², Marie Elise Wiesman², Ute Schmidbauer³, Hinne Albert Rakhorst^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Plastic-, Reconstructive- and Hand Surgery, Medisch Spectrum Twente (MST), Enschede, The Netherlands.
² Department of Pediatrics, Medical Spectrum Twente (MST), Enschede, The Netherlands.
³ Department of Plastic-, Reconstructive- and Hand Surgery, Ziekenhuisgroep Twente (ZGT), Almelo, The Netherlands.

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.

Publication types

Case Reports