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Incidental Diagnosis of Ectopic Pregnancy with Unusual Clinical Presentation
Author(s) -
Mittal Suneeta,
Chhabra Promilla,
Khanna Reena,
Lali Fatima
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.734
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1479-828X
pISSN - 0004-8666
DOI - 10.1111/j.1479-828x.1994.tb01116.x
Subject(s) - ectopic pregnancy , presentation (obstetrics) , medicine , abdominal pain , menstruation , pregnancy , obstetrics , gynecology , general surgery , surgery , pathology , genetics , biology
EDITORIAL COMMENT: We accepted this paper to remind even those readers who are obstetricians and/or gynaecologists that ectopic pregnancy may elude diagnosis unless the possibility is considered in any women during her reproductive years who has abdominal pain, especially when associated with anaemia and disordered menstruation. The presence of pathology in another system can be a distracter from prompt diagnosis of ruptured ectopic pregnancy as shown by these 2 cases.