ArticleAustralasian journal of ultrasound in medicine2011
Ultrasound diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy.
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- Cornual Ectopic Pregnancy: A Case Report.Oman medical journal · 2026Article
- Clinical Profile of Ectopic Pregnancy in a Tertiary Care Center: A Five-Year Retrospective Study.JNMA; journal of the Nepal Medical Association · 2026Observational
- A Case of Ectopic Pregnancy With an Unusually High Level of β-hCG Correlating With Normal Pregnancy.Cureus · 2025Article
- Minimizing Hemorrhage Risk Strategies in Cervical Pregnancy-Stepwise Pharmacologic Priming and Delayed Surgical Evacuation: A Narrative Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
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- Advanced Tubal Ectopic Pregnancy Presenting with a Formed Fetus: Case Analysis and Review of Literature.Clinical medicine insights. Case reports · 2025Article
- Development and Validation of a Machine Learning-Based Clinical Model for Predicting Rupture in Ectopic Pregnancy: A Web-Based Nomogram Approach.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2025Article
- An Uncommon Instance of Tubal Pregnancy With a Vital Fetus at the Thirteenth Week of Gestation.Journal of medical cases · 2024Article
- The Utility of Monitoring Beta-Human Chorionic Gonadotropin Levels in an Ectopic Pregnancy.Cureus · 2023Review
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- Role of Ultrasound in the Assessment and Differential Diagnosis of Pelvic Pain in Pregnancy.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Success rate of methotrexate in the conservative treatment of tubal ectopic pregnancies.Experimental and therapeutic medicine · 2022Article
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- Managing Ectopic Pregnancies by Targeting Chorionic Villi with a Transvaginal Injection of Ethanol into the Lacunar Space.Biomedicines · 2020Article
- Successful treatment of cesarean scar pregnancy with transvaginal injection of absolute ethanol around the gestation sac via ultrasound.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2019Article
- Ruptured Ectopic Pregnancy in the Presence of an Intrauterine Device.Clinical practice and cases in emergency medicine · 2019Article
- Catastrophic consequences of a caesarean scar pregnancy missed on ultrasound.Australasian journal of ultrasound in medicine · 2015Article
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Abstract
Ectopic pregnancy (EP) remains the number one cause of first trimester maternal death. Traditionally, laparoscopy has been the gold standard for diagnosis of EP. The advent of high-resolution transvaginal scan (TVS) means more clinically stable women with EPs are diagnosed earlier, well before surgery becomes necessary in many cases. Early diagnosis by TVS is therefore potentially life saving and can reduce surgical morbidity by allowing elective surgery or even non-surgical conservative treatment options. Combining transabdominal and transvaginal scanning confers no benefit over transvaginal scanning alone. Reports that reads "…empty uterus, ectopic pregnancy cannot be excluded" should be a thing of the past. Diagnosis of EP should be based upon the positive identification of an adnexal mass using TVS rather than the absence of an intra-uterine gestational sac. A systematic approach to scanning the early pregnancy pelvis will diagnose the vast majority of EPs at the initial scan. Ultrasound, and in particular TVS, is fast becoming the new gold standard for diagnosis of all types of EP. In modern management, laparoscopy should be seen as the operative tool of choice while TVS the diagnostic tool of choice.
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