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Combined pregnancy: how common is it?
Author(s) -
Kivikoski A.I.
Publication year - 1989
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 - 10.1016/0020-7292(89)90415-3
Subject(s) - medicine , ectopic pregnancy , incidence (geometry) , pregnancy , heterotopic pregnancy , obstetrics , ultrasound , radiology , gestational sac , genetics , physics , optics , biology
Three cases of combined intrauterine and ectopic pregnancy, treated in the same hospital over a 39‐day period, are presented. This condition has been acknowledged to be a rare phenomenon with delayed diagnosis and treatment. Two of the cases were diagnosed by ultrasound upon arrival at the hospital, and all three were treated within 24 h of arrival. These cases highlight the importance of ultrasound in diagnostics and indicate a possible higher incidence of this phenomenon than was previously estimated.