Pregnancy in a noncommunicating rudimentary horn of a unicornuate uterus: a case report

Pregnancy in the rudimentary horn is rare and carries grave consequences for the mother and fetus. A case report is presented of a 26 year old single gravida 3 para 0(+2) lady with rupture of a rudimentary horn pregnancy at a gestational age of 20 weeks. Laparotomy was done and the rudimentary horn...

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Autores principales: Okonta, Patrick I, Abedi, Harrison, Ajuyah, Caroline, Omo-Aghoja, Lawrence
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cases Network Ltd 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740162/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19829836
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-6624
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author Okonta, Patrick I
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Ajuyah, Caroline
Omo-Aghoja, Lawrence
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description Pregnancy in the rudimentary horn is rare and carries grave consequences for the mother and fetus. A case report is presented of a 26 year old single gravida 3 para 0(+2) lady with rupture of a rudimentary horn pregnancy at a gestational age of 20 weeks. Laparotomy was done and the rudimentary horn excised. Post-operative recovery was uneventful. The need for a high index of suspicion and the role of ultrasonography in the accurate diagnosis is highlighted.
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spelling pubmed-27401622009-10-14 Pregnancy in a noncommunicating rudimentary horn of a unicornuate uterus: a case report Okonta, Patrick I Abedi, Harrison Ajuyah, Caroline Omo-Aghoja, Lawrence Cases J Case report Pregnancy in the rudimentary horn is rare and carries grave consequences for the mother and fetus. A case report is presented of a 26 year old single gravida 3 para 0(+2) lady with rupture of a rudimentary horn pregnancy at a gestational age of 20 weeks. Laparotomy was done and the rudimentary horn excised. Post-operative recovery was uneventful. The need for a high index of suspicion and the role of ultrasonography in the accurate diagnosis is highlighted. Cases Network Ltd 2009-04-27 /pmc/articles/PMC2740162/ /pubmed/19829836 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-6624 Text en © 2009 Okonta et al.; licensee Cases Network Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Abedi, Harrison
Ajuyah, Caroline
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Pregnancy in a noncommunicating rudimentary horn of a unicornuate uterus: a case report
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title_full Pregnancy in a noncommunicating rudimentary horn of a unicornuate uterus: a case report
title_fullStr Pregnancy in a noncommunicating rudimentary horn of a unicornuate uterus: a case report
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title_short Pregnancy in a noncommunicating rudimentary horn of a unicornuate uterus: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740162/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19829836
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-6624
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