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[Abdominal pregnancy: study of a series of 11 cases]
E O Adjahoto1, A Attignon, A K S Kodonou
1Département de gynécologie-obstétrique, CHU-TOKOIN, Lomé, Togo. adjahoto@syfed.tg.refer.org
Revue Medicale De La Suisse Romande
|March 13, 2002
Abstract
Objective:
To report our experiment concerning abdominal pregnancy.
Material And Methods:
Retrospective study of 11 cases of abdominal pregnancies operated by laparotomy between August 1994 and July 1999.
Results:
36.3% of cases corresponded to a first pregnancy. Four pregnancies had attended beyond the term of viability. Two children were born alive. The ablation of the placenta was generally complete (10/11 cases) without major bleeding.
Conclusion:
Rare affection of difficult clinical diagnosis, the abdominal pregnancy presents a significant perinatal mortality.