Rupture of a rudimentary horn at 16 weeks of gestation

Abstract

A patient with acute abdomen at 16th week of gestation underwent an emergency laparotomy. At laparotomy two litres of fibrinated and free blood and a dead fetus with placenta was detected intraabdominally. The right ovary and tube was normal and the uterus was normal in size. There was a ruptured and actively bleeding uterine horn on the left side of the uterus. The ruptured uterine horn was excised with the left tube by preserving the left ovary. The patient recovered without any complications

Keywords

• Rudimentary horn, pregnancy, rupture

Onaltıncı gebelik haftasında rudimenter horn rüptürü

Öz

Onaltıncı gebelik haftasında akut batın tablosu ile gelen hasta acil laparotomiye alındı. Laparotomide intraabdominal iki litre fibrine ve defibrine kan ve ölü bir fetus ile birlikte plasentası tesbit edildi. Sağ over ve tüp normal görünümde ve uterus normal boyutlardaydı. Uterusun solunda rupture ve aktif kanamalı uterin horn gözlendi. Rupture uterin horn sol over korunarak sol tüp ile birlikte eksize edildi. Hasta herhangi bir komplikasyon gelişmeden taburcu edildi.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Rudimenter horn, gebelik, yırtılma

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