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Second trimester uterine atony imitating ectopic pregnancy: magnetic resonance diagnosis
J R Wax1, C M Tempany, M J Slowey
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth, VA 23708, USA.
Military Medicine
|October 1, 1995
Abstract:
When an obstetrical patient was referred for inability to auscultate fetal heart tones at 18 weeks' gestation, ultrasound identified a single living fetus in the maternal right upper quadrant. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) ruled out a suspected uterine ectopic pregnancy and avoided laparotomy. The patient experienced an uncomplicated term delivery. MRI is a useful adjunct to ultrasound for mid-trimester pregnancy localization when the differential diagnosis includes uterine eccyesis.