Abdominal Pregnancy [about 4 cases]

ABSTRACT

The epidemiology, diagnosis and prognosis of abdominal pregnancy are discussed based on four cases seen from 1992 to 2000. Surgery is obligatory and its difficulty is dominated by hemostasis during the extraction of the placenta which also limits the laparoscopic surgery treatment of early abdominal pregnancies. The abdominal pregnancy is of very bad fetal prognosis and at high risk for the pregnant woman