Abdominal pregnancy: ultrasound diagnosis aided by the balloon of a Foley catheter.

Autor: Ekele, Bissallah Ahmed, Ahmed, Yakubu, Nnadi, Daniel, Ishaku, Kabiru
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Zdroj: Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica; Jul2005, Vol. 84 Issue 7, p701-702, 2p
Abstrakt: Reports a case of an advanced abdominal pregnancy that was diagnosed preoperatively by ultrasound with the aid of the balloon of a Foley catheter placed within the uterine cavity. Performance of a preliminary ultrasound scan that revealed a singleton, breech fetus with no fetal heart activity; Difficulty to demonstrate an empty uterus separate from the fetus and the gestation scan; Recovery of the patient after undergoing laparotomy with the extraction of the fetus from a huge, central, thick-walled gestation sac.
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