Abdominal pregnancy

Abdominal pregnancy
The fetus of an abdominal pregnancy being removed from the abdomen
SpecialtyObstetrics

An abdominal pregnancy is a rare type of ectopic pregnancy where the embryo or fetus is growing and developing outside the uterus, in the abdomen, and not in a fallopian tube (usual location), an ovary, or the broad ligament.

Because tubal, ovarian and broad ligament pregnancies are as difficult to diagnose and treat as abdominal pregnancies, their exclusion from the most common definition of abdominal pregnancy has been debated.

Others—in the minority—are of the view that abdominal pregnancy should be defined by a placenta implanted into the peritoneum.

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