Mini-cornual excision: a simple stepwise laparoscopic technique for the treatment of cornual pregnancy.
Cornual pregnancy often poses a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge, with a significant risk for morbidity and mortality. Traditional treatment for cornual pregnancy has been through laparotomy, wedge resection, or hysterectomy. Early diagnosis is now possible through transvaginal ultrasonography and highly-sensitive beta-human chorionic gonadotropin assays. Consequently, several less-invasive therapies and techniques have been introduced over the last 2 decades. We present a simple, stepwise laparoscopic technique for the definitive, minimally-invasive excision of cornual pregnancy, along with a review of the pertinent literature.
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, MacDonald Women's Hospital, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. moawadns@mail.magee.edu
Nashat S
NS
Moawad
Sandra
S
Dayaratna
Sangeeta T
ST
Mahajan
D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy / Q000379:methods*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011271:Pregnancy, Ectopic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*