title: [A pregnant woman with acute shoulder pain].
abstract: A 34-year-old woman presented with abdominal pain, vaginal blood loss and severe shoulder pain. Ultrasound revealed an ectopic pregnancy. The shoulder pain was due to irritation of the diaphragm caused by bleeding from a ruptured fallopian tube into the abdominal cavity.
authors.affiliation: Máxima Medisch Centrum, afd. Gynaecologie, Veldhoven.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: van de Ven
authors.forename: P M A J
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Geomini
mesh_terms: D015746:Abdominal Pain / Q000175:diagnosis; D059787:Acute Pain; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D011271:Pregnancy, Ectopic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D020069:Shoulder Pain / Q000175:diagnosis; D014592:Uterine Hemorrhage / Q000175:diagnosis