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XVIII.33 Model of knee presentation
Author: unknown
Place:Florence
Date:1770-1775
Materials:terracotta
Dimensions:200x380x360 mm
Current inventory:Dep. OSMN, Firenze
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This terracotta model, commissioned by Giuseppe Galletti, describes a "knees-first" breech presentation. The fetus, in posterior sacro-iliac position, has its limbs extended up to the knee joint, which is flexed so as to present the knees. The placenta is lateral right.

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