Laparoscopic removal of twin cornual pregnancy after in vitro fertilization.
The laparoscopic management of tubal pregnancies by salpingostomy has become a clinical standard of care (5). Those surgeries usually are performed for tubal pregnancies that are located distally to the cornua and the intramural piece of the tube. We previously reported on the conservative surgical management of interstitial pregnancies (3). To our knowledge, cornual pregnancies have never before been approached laparoscopically. Such a surgical approach is reported here, involving a twin gestation in the left uterine cornua conceived by IVF in a women with bilaterally absent tubes.
Gleicher
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Center for Human Reproduction, Chicago, Illinois 60610.
Karande
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Rabin
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Pratt
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D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005307:Fertilization in Vitro; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy; D011247:Pregnancy; D011272:Pregnancy, Multiple; D011274:Pregnancy, Tubal / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy*; D014427:Twins