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Ruptured Ectopic Pregnancy after Elective Termination of Intrauterine Pregnancy Discovered by Use of Ultrasonography in the Emergency Department
Author(s) -
Burnette Robert E,
Butler Richard C
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
academic emergency medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.221
H-Index - 124
eISSN - 1553-2712
pISSN - 1069-6563
DOI - 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2000.tb02281.x
Subject(s) - medicine , ectopic pregnancy , emergency department , obstetrics , obstetrics and gynaecology , pregnancy , abdominal pain , lower abdominal pain , ultrasonography , gynecology , surgery , genetics , psychiatry , biology
. The authors report a case of a 27‐year‐old female who was diagnosed as having a ruptured ectopic pregnancy approximately 12 hours after an elective termination of an intrauterine pregnancy (IUP) was performed. Multiple previous evaluations by an obstetrician for a chief complaint of abdominal pain revealed an IUP but did not disclose the underlying pathology. The ectopic pregnancy was identified by the emergency physician's use of ultrasound in the emergency department.