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Original article| Volume 66, ISSUE 2, P161-167, November 1944

Abdominal pregnancy

Survey of the literature and report of an unusual case
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      Abstract

      Abdominal pregnancy has been reviewed on the basis of an analysis of 236 cases by Cornell and Lash and twenty-two more cases from the literature from the points of view of its incidence, etiology, methods of diagnosis, optimal time of operative intervention, and disposition of the placenta; and an unusual case, hitherto unreported, has been presented.
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