Sonographic appearance of heterotopic pregnancy with ruptured ectopic tubal pregnancy
✍ Scribed by Manphool Singhal; Chirag Kamal Ahuja; Akshay Kumar Saxena; Lakhbir Dhaliwal; Niranjan Khandelwal
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 131 KB
- Volume
- 38
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0091-2751
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
Heterotopic pregnancy, ie, combined intrauterine and extrauterine (ectopic) pregnancy, is a rare clinical entity that may present with acute abdominal catastrophy. Most of cases reported in literature are a consequence of medical or surgical interventions like assisted reproductive techniques, tubal surgeries, intrauterine contraceptive devices, or pelvic inflammatory disease. Heterotopic pregnancy occurring spontaneously is extremely uncommon. We describe the sonographic appearance of spontaneous heterotopic pregnancy with ruptured ectopic tubal pregnancy. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Ultrasound, 2010