Advanced Extra‐uterine Pregnancy

Advanced Extra‐uterine Gestation

“…of personal or collected series of abdominal and other advanced ectopic pregnancies. Papers by Ware (1948), Cross et al (1951), Barrett (1952), King (1954), Charlewood and Culiner (1955) and Yahia and Montgomery (1956) give detailed results of the outcome in such pregnancies. Our recent experience with a rapid succession of advanced extra-uterine pregnancies is the occasion for the publication of this report.…”

Advanced Extrauterine Pregnancy

“…The outlook for the foetus is even gloomier, but in many reported cases, as in four from our own series, the foetus had died before the diagnosis of extrauterine pregnancy was made. Foetal mortalities ranging from 90% (Charlewood and Culiner, 1955) to 60% (Yahia and Montgomery, 1956) have been reported. Again we have been fortunate that in 5 of our 10 patients the foetus was alive and mature enough to be viable; four of these children survive, and one died of prematurity after a successful delivery.…”