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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 a...

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Autores principales: Moawad, Nashat S., Dayaratna, Sandra, Mahajan, Sangeeta T.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3015918/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19366550
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Sumario: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 β-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.