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The Importance of Ectopic Mindedness: Scar Ectopic Pregnancy, a Diagnostic Dilemma

There has been a consistent rise in ectopic pregnancies due to increase in maternal age, infertility treatment, cesarean sections, smoking among women, and use of contraceptives. With the extratubal ectopic pregnancies accounting for only 4% of the total ectopic pregnancies, scar pregnancies are eve...

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Autores principales: Kumari, Vina, Kumar, Himanshu, Datta, Mamta R
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7933601/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33728112
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13089
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description There has been a consistent rise in ectopic pregnancies due to increase in maternal age, infertility treatment, cesarean sections, smoking among women, and use of contraceptives. With the extratubal ectopic pregnancies accounting for only 4% of the total ectopic pregnancies, scar pregnancies are even more of a rare entity with their incidence being less than 1%. We hereby present two cases of ectopic pregnancies, which though managed successfully presented a huge diagnostic challenge in the first case while the diagnosis was completely missed in the second case, hence, emphasizing the need for ectopic mindedness when dealing with early pregnancies.
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spelling pubmed-79336012021-03-15 The Importance of Ectopic Mindedness: Scar Ectopic Pregnancy, a Diagnostic Dilemma Kumari, Vina Kumar, Himanshu Datta, Mamta R Cureus Emergency Medicine There has been a consistent rise in ectopic pregnancies due to increase in maternal age, infertility treatment, cesarean sections, smoking among women, and use of contraceptives. With the extratubal ectopic pregnancies accounting for only 4% of the total ectopic pregnancies, scar pregnancies are even more of a rare entity with their incidence being less than 1%. We hereby present two cases of ectopic pregnancies, which though managed successfully presented a huge diagnostic challenge in the first case while the diagnosis was completely missed in the second case, hence, emphasizing the need for ectopic mindedness when dealing with early pregnancies. Cureus 2021-02-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7933601/ /pubmed/33728112 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13089 Text en Copyright © 2021, Kumari et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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