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Demonstration of ectopic pregnancy by transvaginal ultrasound
Article first published online: 19 AUG 2005
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1988.tb06814.x
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BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Volume 95, Issue 12, pages 1253–1256, December 1988
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DE CRESPIGNY, L. CH. (1988), Demonstration of ectopic pregnancy by transvaginal ultrasound. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 95: 1253–1256. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1988.tb06814.x
Publication History
- Issue published online: 19 AUG 2005
- Article first published online: 19 AUG 2005
- Received 16 November 1987, Accepted 17 February 1988
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Summary. Transvaginal ultrasound was used in the assessment of 148 patients clinically suspected of having an ectopic pregnancy. Transvaginal ultrasound allowed earlier demonstration of an intrauterine pregnancy without confusion with a pseudosac. Of the 36 patients with an ectopic pregnancy, this was strongly suspected in 29 (81%). A live extrauterine fetus was seen in 8 (22%), ectopic trophoblast or a gestation-sac-like structure in 19 (53%), and a pelvic haematoma in 2 (6%). Transvaginal ultrasound is advocated as the technique of choice in patients suspected of having an ectopic pregnancy.