Kazan medical journalKazan medical journal0368-48142587-9359Eco-Vector5293610.17816/kazmj52936Short CommunicationEpisiotomyGruzdevV.info@eco-vector.com130219262220312202003122020Copyright © 2020, Gruzdev V.2020<p>On the extensive material of the Amsterdam clinic van Tongeren (Zeit. F. Geb. u. Gyn., Bd. LXXXIX. H. I) convinced that the obstetrician in most cases is not able to say whether a woman in labor will have a perineal rupture or not ... Further, he found that septic diseases after a preventive episiotomy occur just as often, even more often than after perineal ruptures, and equally does not guarantee episiotomy against consecutive scar pain.</p>Kazan Medical archiveКазанский медицинский архив