[Tubal pregnancy following hysterectomy]

A 41 year old woman had been submitted to a supravaginal uterine amputation in 1978 and to extirpation of the cervical stump in 1981. In 1982 she then developed a tubal pregnancy. - There have been only 30 reports regarding ectopic gestation diagnosed after previous complete hysterectomy in world literature since 1895. In 20 cases conception occurred some time before hysterectomy, in the remaining 10 cases, however, thereafter ("early" or respectively "late" type of extrauterine gestation, with regard to the date of hysterectomy). Probably ectopic pregnancy following complete hysterectomy could be diagnosed more often in the future, provided that the possibility of its manifestation is carefully taken into consideration.