Managing a Live Advanced Abdominal Twin Pregnancy

Advanced abdominal pregnancies with live twin fetuses are extremely rare and are misdiagnosed in up to 60% of the cases. Such a case is presented here, highlighting the diagnostic and management challenges encountered. A high index of suspicion in making the diagnosis of this rare variety of ectopic...

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Autores principales: Mpogoro, FJ, Gumodoka, B, Kihunrwa, A, Massinde, AN
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3634207/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23634344
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2141-9248.109472
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description Advanced abdominal pregnancies with live twin fetuses are extremely rare and are misdiagnosed in up to 60% of the cases. Such a case is presented here, highlighting the diagnostic and management challenges encountered. A high index of suspicion in making the diagnosis of this rare variety of ectopic pregnancy, emphasizing adherence to basic imaging principles, and appropriate placental management is very important in reducing the associated morbidity and mortality.
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spelling pubmed-36342072013-04-30 Managing a Live Advanced Abdominal Twin Pregnancy Mpogoro, FJ Gumodoka, B Kihunrwa, A Massinde, AN Ann Med Health Sci Res Case Report Advanced abdominal pregnancies with live twin fetuses are extremely rare and are misdiagnosed in up to 60% of the cases. Such a case is presented here, highlighting the diagnostic and management challenges encountered. A high index of suspicion in making the diagnosis of this rare variety of ectopic pregnancy, emphasizing adherence to basic imaging principles, and appropriate placental management is very important in reducing the associated morbidity and mortality. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3634207/ /pubmed/23634344 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2141-9248.109472 Text en Copyright: © Annals of Medical and Health Sciences Research http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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