Mirror Image Artifact Mimicking Heterotopic Pregnancy on Transvaginal Ultrasound: Case Series

Vaginal bleeding in early pregnancy is a common emergency department complaint. Point-of-care ultrasound is a useful tool to evaluate for intrauterine ectopic pregnancy. Emergency physicians performing these studies need to be cognizant of artifacts produced by ultrasound technology, as they can lea...

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Autores principales: Malhotra, Radhika, Bramante, Robert M., Radomski, Marek, Nelson, Mathew
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine 2014
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Technology in Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4162736/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25247050
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2014.5.22508
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author Malhotra, Radhika
Bramante, Robert M.
Radomski, Marek
Nelson, Mathew
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description Vaginal bleeding in early pregnancy is a common emergency department complaint. Point-of-care ultrasound is a useful tool to evaluate for intrauterine ectopic pregnancy. Emergency physicians performing these studies need to be cognizant of artifacts produced by ultrasound technology, as they can lead to misdiagnosis. We present two cases where mirror-image artifacts initially led to a concern for heterotopic pregnancies but were excluded on further imaging.
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spelling pubmed-41627362014-09-22 Mirror Image Artifact Mimicking Heterotopic Pregnancy on Transvaginal Ultrasound: Case Series Malhotra, Radhika Bramante, Robert M. Radomski, Marek Nelson, Mathew West J Emerg Med Technology in Emergency Medicine Vaginal bleeding in early pregnancy is a common emergency department complaint. Point-of-care ultrasound is a useful tool to evaluate for intrauterine ectopic pregnancy. Emergency physicians performing these studies need to be cognizant of artifacts produced by ultrasound technology, as they can lead to misdiagnosis. We present two cases where mirror-image artifacts initially led to a concern for heterotopic pregnancies but were excluded on further imaging. Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine 2014-09 /pmc/articles/PMC4162736/ /pubmed/25247050 http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2014.5.22508 Text en Copyright © 2014 the authors. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
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Malhotra, Radhika
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Mirror Image Artifact Mimicking Heterotopic Pregnancy on Transvaginal Ultrasound: Case Series
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title_full Mirror Image Artifact Mimicking Heterotopic Pregnancy on Transvaginal Ultrasound: Case Series
title_fullStr Mirror Image Artifact Mimicking Heterotopic Pregnancy on Transvaginal Ultrasound: Case Series
title_full_unstemmed Mirror Image Artifact Mimicking Heterotopic Pregnancy on Transvaginal Ultrasound: Case Series
title_short Mirror Image Artifact Mimicking Heterotopic Pregnancy on Transvaginal Ultrasound: Case Series
title_sort mirror image artifact mimicking heterotopic pregnancy on transvaginal ultrasound: case series
topic Technology in Emergency Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4162736/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25247050
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