[Fertility after extrauterine pregnancy. A 16-year retrospective study]

A retrospective investigation of fertility following extrauterine pregnancy during a period of 16 years in a central hospital was carried out. Out of 283 women with extrauterine pregnancy, if proved possible to investigate the postoperative fertility in 181 women. It was found that 71.8% of the patients conceived and 49.2% were delivered of living infants while 16% developed renewed extrauterine pregnancies. No significant differences were found in the frequencies of renewed extrauterine pregnancy and the number of liveborn infants between women who had been submitted to radical operation and women in whom conservative operative methods were employed. On the basis of this investigation and review of the literature, the present authors consider, that conservative operation should be employed where this is technically possible.