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Three‐Dimensional Sonographic Findings of a Cervical Pregnancy
Author(s) -
Sherer David M.,
Gorelick Constantine,
Dalloul Mudar,
Sokolovski Margarita,
Kheyman Mila,
Kakamanu Sangeetha,
Abulafia Ovadia
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
journal of ultrasound in medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.574
H-Index - 91
eISSN - 1550-9613
pISSN - 0278-4297
DOI - 10.7863/jum.2008.27.1.155
Subject(s) - medicine , obstetrics , pregnancy , cervical pregnancy , gynecology , ectopic pregnancy , genetics , biology
A cervical pregnancy is an uncommon ectopic pregnancy that accounts for less than 1% of such gestations. This condition is associated with an extremely high risk of massive hemorrhage and previously often required hysterectomy. The current diagnostic modality of this potentially life-threatening condition is transvaginal sonography, supported at times by magnetic resonance imaging. The definitive diagnostic imaging feature of a cervical pregnancy is the location of a gestational sac in the cervix in the presence of a closed internal uterine cervical os. We report the 3-dimensional transvaginal sonographic findings of a cervical pregnancy at 6 weeks' gestation.