Abdominal pregnancy

Abdominal ectopic pregnancy complicated with a large bowel injury: a case report

“…It is noted that the classical signs and symptoms of ectopic pregnancy are usually present in those cases generally regarded as secondary abdominal ectopic pregnancies, but the symptoms are quite variable in regard to those cases recognized as primary [6]. The clinical presentation in our case was vaginal bleeding of three days duration and it was initially mis-diagnosed as a missed second trimester abortion.…”

Advanced Extrauterine Pregnancy

“…Beck (1919) agreed that removal of the placenta was best, but maintained that ligation of the vessels supplying the placental site should precede all attempts at removal ; when this could not be achieved the placenta should be left undisturbed. Of more recent writers some advocate removal of the placenta in every possible case (Barrett, 1952;Hibbard, 1957), while a few are convinced that removal of the placenta is so dangerous that it should never be attempted (Cross et al, 1951;Barber and Rathbun, 1958). In each of our cases the placenta has been removed, but in six hysterectomy was necessary in order to do this.…”

Ectromelia in an Abdominal Pregnancy

“…The incidence of abdominal pregnancies has been reported variously as 1 : 286 (Barrett 1952) and 1 : 15,000 (Zuspan et al 1957), they account for less than 2 per cent of all ectopic pregnancies (Jarcho 1949). A very high incidence of abnormality in the products of gestation found in extrauterine sites was described by Mall (1908), and it has long been recognized that such an association exists.…”