Title: Ectopic Cornual Pregnancy and Its Management: A Case Report and Literature Review
Authors:Dr Sudha Rani Panagar, Dr Pawan H R
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v3i11.23
Abstract
Background: cornual ectopic or interstitial ectopic is a rare type of ectopic pregnancy for 2-4% of all tubal pregnancies. It is associated with serious or fatal bleeding and mortality rate upto 2-2.5%.
Result: A 32 year old woman, G3P2L2, 2 Alive presented to the gynaecological Emergency ward with 10 weeks amenorrhea, with lower abdominal pain on April 09, 2014. A clinical diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy was made and confirmed using USS. At surgery a right cornual unruptured ectopic pregnancy was found. She had right cornual resection and salphingectomy and left tubal ligation. There were no postoperative complications.
Conclusion: it is difficult to make a clinical diagnosis of cornual ectopic pregnancy. Management is generally surgical. Our patient had Cornual resection and salphingectomy with no postoperative morbidity.
Key words: Ectopic, Cornual, pregnancy
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