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Model of knee presentation
    • Setting:
      Room X
    • Author:
      unknown
    • Place:
      Florence
    • Date:
      1770-1775
    • Materials:
      terracotta
    • Dimensions:
      200x380x360 mm
    • Inventory:
      Dep. OSMN, Firenze
    • Model of knee presentation (Dep. OSMN, Firenze)

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.