BACKGROUND:

Abdominal pregnancy is a rare clinical entity with a high risk for both the mother and the product. It’s diagnosis requires a high level of suspicion, being usually made during the surgical management of the case. It is the only type of ectopic pregnancy that can reach term.

CLINICAL CASE:

A 35 year-old patient, with two previous cesarean deliveries, who presents with chronic abdominal pain, without prenatal consultations and with several months of amenorrhea. The pain is initially atributted to an umbilical hernia, but due to it’s persistence she is re-examined, finding an abdominal mass and raising suspicion of a possible ectopic pregnancy. She’s sent to a hospital in western Mexico, where she undergoes abdominal examination with ultrasound and magnetic resonance, which shows a full term abdominal pregnancy, for which a laparotomy is performed. The placenta is left in situ, due to the high risk of hemorrhage associated with it’s removal. Both the newborn and the mother are released from the hospital in good conditions after two weeks of stay, with subsequent follow-up.

CONCLUSIONS:

Despite it being a rare condition, it’s important to be acquainted with the proper management according to the gestational age of the pregnancy due to the recent rise in it’s incidence, as well as it’s particularly high rate of complicactions, in order to preserve the wellbeing of both patients when possible, as well as maternal fertility.

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