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Caesarean scar pregnancy at 19 weeks gestation
Author(s) -
Ebner Florian,
Handar,
Petrich Simone,
Paterson Helen
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
australasian journal of ultrasound in medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2205-0140
pISSN - 1836-6864
DOI - 10.1002/j.2205-0140.2011.tb00121.x
Subject(s) - medicine , caesarean section , obstetrics , pregnancy , gestation , ultrasound , radiology , genetics , biology
Due to the increased numbers of caesarean sections in the last decade, women with a caesarean section scar in pregnancy are becoming more commonly diagnosed using ultrasound. One of the rare but more severe complications of this is an implantation of the pregnancy in the caesarean section scar.