Use of the Purse-String Suture to Conservatively Manage a Cornual Ectopic Pregnancy

We report the successful management of a 31-year-old female, treated by cornual wedge resection. The patient suffered from vaginal spotting and lower abdominal pain. Transvaginal ultrasonography revealed a 4-5 cm right cornual pregnancy and beta-human chorionic gonadotropin was measured to be 614.7...

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Autores principales: Oshodi, Oluwatofunmi, Castaneda, Jose
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8093125/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33959439
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.14249
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description We report the successful management of a 31-year-old female, treated by cornual wedge resection. The patient suffered from vaginal spotting and lower abdominal pain. Transvaginal ultrasonography revealed a 4-5 cm right cornual pregnancy and beta-human chorionic gonadotropin was measured to be 614.7 IU/L. This ectopic pregnancy was removed via a laparotomy with cornual wedge resection and right salpingectomy. 
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spelling pubmed-80931252021-05-05 Use of the Purse-String Suture to Conservatively Manage a Cornual Ectopic Pregnancy Oshodi, Oluwatofunmi Castaneda, Jose Cureus Emergency Medicine We report the successful management of a 31-year-old female, treated by cornual wedge resection. The patient suffered from vaginal spotting and lower abdominal pain. Transvaginal ultrasonography revealed a 4-5 cm right cornual pregnancy and beta-human chorionic gonadotropin was measured to be 614.7 IU/L. This ectopic pregnancy was removed via a laparotomy with cornual wedge resection and right salpingectomy.  Cureus 2021-04-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8093125/ /pubmed/33959439 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.14249 Text en Copyright © 2021, Oshodi et al. https://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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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8093125/
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