This descriptive study with prospective data collection was conducted in the Obstetric Center of Maternal Perinatal Institute (IMAPE), former Maternity Hospital of Lima, during the period January to December 1994. In the year mentioned utopian 12409 births of which 222 had postpartum postpartum endometritis, constituting 1. 2%, Most of these patients had presented aged 13 - 20 years, constituting 46.4%: whose occupation these, 88.7 home law marriage, at 62.2%; degree of incomplete secondary education. 40.5%; a high rate of primiparous them in 71 23 was observed during labor were performed pelvic exams 7-10 in 66.2%, the duration of labor was 12 hours by 7.3%; There was a low rate of premature rupture of membrane with 20.7%; predominating in the time of 6-12 hours RPM by 71 .7%: in color of amniotic fluid, it was observed that the light color prevailed in 65.43. The vast majority of birth...