Description
Management of ectopic pregnancy has come a long way since Lawson Tait first performed a laparotomy and treated the ectopic pregnancy with salpingectomy in the late 19th century. In that period, the diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy was usually made at the time of laparotomy under emergency conditions and the physician’s main concern was more to save the woman’s life than with the effect surgery would have on her future fertility. Today, ectopic pregnancies can be recognised much before the appearance of dramatic symptoms, mainly because of the availability of sensitive specific home and serum pregnancy tests and high resolution endovaginal sonography1.
