Laparoscopic management of early primary abdominal pregnancy.
BACKGROUND
Abdominal pregnancy is a very rare condition with a high mortality rate.


METHODS
A 29-year-old woman with a history of primary infertility was admitted because of lower abdominal pain, bloody vaginal discharge, and positive urine pregnancy test. Transvaginal ultrasonography revealed a 27 x 25-mm mass containing a gestational sac-like structure located outside the uterus. At laparoscopy, a clot was revealed including chorionic villi, adherent to the peritoneum in the right vesicouterine pouch. This was removed along with the adherent peritoneum. Postoperative histology revealed invasion of chorionic tissues into peritoneum.


CONCLUSIONS
Early diagnosis of an ectopic pregnancy by transvaginal ultrasonography enabled the laparoscopic management of early abdominal pregnancy.
Tsudo
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Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tottori University School of Medicine, Yonago, Japan.
Harada
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Yoshioka
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Terakawa
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D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy; D011247:Pregnancy; D011269:Pregnancy, Abdominal / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D016216:Ultrasonography, Prenatal