[Child development after abdominal version of the fetus from breech presentation to vertex presentation near term].

The prospective study presented here describes the results of follow-up examinations of the developmental stage of 116 children born between 1977 and 1980 in whom abdominal version of the foetus from breech presentation to vertex presentation was performed near term. The children were examined according to the Denver Developmental Screening Test at the age of 2 to 5 3/4 years in various fields (social contacts, minor motor functions and adaptation, speech and major motor functions). Children with abnormal findings were subjected to special examinations. Those with disturbed development were re-examined after one year. In the entire group of children there were four with psychomotor retardation of speech, and two further children with minimal cerebral motor disturbances. The children had been detected early during infancy. These results, classified as secondary morbidity (disturbances of speech and minimal cerebral motor disturbances) were analysed taking into account the results of version (successful and unsuccessful version) and other obstetric factors (course of pregnancy and birth, method of delivery, biochemical examinations during and after birth, age of mother and socioeconomic status of parents).