title: Blunt abdominal trauma with ruptured 16-week cornual ectopic pregnancy.
abstract: Trauma is the leading cause of nonobstetric morbidity and mortality in pregnancy. Care of the pregnant trauma patient is well documented in the medical literature; however, little has been written about the management of trauma patients with ectopic or cornual pregnancy. Herein, we report the previously undocumented occurrence of a traumatic rupture of a cornual ectopic pregnancy. The use of trauma ultrasound, computerized tomography, as well as obstetrical evaluation prevented an imminent life-threatening complication of this patient's pregnancy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, The University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita, Wichita, Kansas, USA.
authors.forename: Robert W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Vorhies
authors.forename: William A
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: Waswick
authors.forename: James E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Delmore
authors.forename: Jonathan M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Dort
authors.forename: John W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Shaw
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005313:Fetal Death; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D011271:Pregnancy, Ectopic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016216:Ultrasonography, Prenatal; D014597:Uterine Rupture / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D014949:Wounds, Nonpenetrating / Q000150:complications*