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Bilateral septic knee arthritis after treatment of an ectopic pregnancy with methotrexate
Fatih Karaaslan1, Musa Uğur Mermerkaya1, Emre Yurdakul2
1Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Faculty of Medicine, Bozok University, Yozgat, Turkey.
International Medical Case Reports Journal
|January 23, 2015
Abstract:
We describe a case of bilateral septic knee arthritis that followed the administration of methotrexate for nonsurgical termination of an ectopic pregnancy. We believe that methotrexate is a relatively effective alternative to surgery in patients with early unruptured tubal pregnancies, but suggest that it be used with caution in view of possible septic events.