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Rupture of the uterus from fundus down to cervix anteriorly.
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A dead fresh female infant weighing 3140 grams with lethal skeletal dysplasia was found extruded in the abdominal cavity and was extracted with no need for a hysterotomy incision (Figure 1). 
Female fetus at 40 weeks of pregnancy with short limbs and redundant skin folds, macrocephaly, narrow bell-shaped thorax, and protuberant abdomen.
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Type 1 Thanatophoric dysplasia diagnosis was made (Figure 2). The fetal head and abdominal circumferences were 40 cm and 55 cm, respectively.
Radiography of the fetus showing telephone receiver-like curved femurs and humerus with irregular metaphysis.
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After the evacuation of the hemoperitoneum, a rupture of the uterus from the fundus anteriorly to the lower segment down to the cervix was observed (Figure 3).