title: Thirteen-week abdominal pregnancy after hysterectomy.
abstract: A case of a 42-year-old woman who presented 11 weeks after a vaginal hysterectomy with a 13-week abdominal pregnancy is presented. The patient had operative intervention, which was complicated by bleeding and a pulmonary embolus. A brief review of the literature relating to post-hysterectomy pregnancy follows. Physicians are urged to consider this diagnosis in women who have had hysterectomies, even if the hysterectomy was performed years earlier.
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
authors.forename: Douglas S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Binder
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007044:Hysterectomy; D011247:Pregnancy; D011269:Pregnancy, Abdominal