Abstract
The attention of a small group of observers has been attracted to the clinical resemblance of certain ovarian conditions to ectopic pregnancy. The majority of cases recorded have dealt with the formation of a pelvic hematocele of ovarian origin, usually due to rupture and subsequent hemorrhage from a corpus luteum cyst. The most important ovarian conditions that may suggest ectopic pregnancy are: (1) a corpus luteum or follicular cyst; (2) torsion of the pedicle of a cyst; (3) rupture of a cyst with or without intra-abdominal hemorrhage; (4) ovarian hemorrhage, and (5) hemorrhage into a cyst. Judging from the literature, the last is infrequent, especially as regards its giving rise to symptoms suggestive of ectopic pregnancy. The exceedingly close simulation of ectopic pregnancy is well shown in the following instance: History. —Mrs. D., aged 28, secundipara, whose labors had been normal, the last one occurring fourteen months before, consulted me,
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