Abstract

AMADOR DE VARONA, Caridad Irene; VENTURA BALMACEDA, Zailik; LEON DE LA TORRE, Oscar  and  ARENCIBIA RIFA, Kathiuska. Ovarian ectopic pregnancy. A case report. AMC [online]. 2008, vol.12, n.6. ISSN 1025-0255.

Ectopic pregnancy is a disorder of great importance for the complications its evolution is implicit in woman, turns out to be uncommon, its incidence is about 0,3-3%. A case of a 39 years old woman attended by our team in the fulfillment of an internationalist mission at a municipal hospital, Ghana, Africa is reported, with a pregnancy as clinical diagnosis. Ultrasonography diagnosed an ectopic pregnancy to the ovary level, in this opportunity interruption of pregnancy was proposed to the woman and for economic situations, she did not agree and she went to her house. She returned 12 weeks later and the fetus was dead. She had an operation for laparotomy and a female fetus about 36 weeks of pregnancy was extracted. She was discharged from the hospital five days after with a satisfactory evolution.

Keywords : Pregnancy ectopic.

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