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Continued Pregnancy After Curettage and Incidental Tubal Fulguration by Laparoscopy: A Case Report
Author(s) -
Savel Lewis E.,
Simon Stanley R.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
international journal of gynecology and obstetrics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.895
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1879-3479
pISSN - 0020-7292
DOI - 10.1002/j.1879-3479.1978.tb00388.x
Subject(s) - fulguration , medicine , curettage , laparoscopy , surgery , pregnancy , tubal occlusion , cauterization , obstetrics , research methodology , family planning , population , genetics , environmental health , biology
The patient presented in this case report had an incomplete abortion after dilatation, curettage and tubal fulguration, despite postoperative radiologic evidence of tubal occlusion. The pregnancy evidently either survived the fulguration to abort later or was intrauterine and missed by the curettage.