“…Frequency and Site of Spontaneous Haemorrhage Ellis, Griffiths, and MacIntyre (1958) found that ruptured ectopic pregnancy or follicular cyst (68%) and trauma (23% were the commonest causes of their 129 cases of haemoperitoneum. However, spontaneous rupture of intra-abdominal blood-vessels, though considered rare, is a very definite clinical entity (Bruce, 1937).…”