Abstract
A REVIEW of patients with ectopic pregnancies operated on at Harlem Hospital in the last ten years shows a marked rise in the incidence each year. In 1942 there were 26 such cases, and that number increased annually until in 1950 there were 88 cases in which the diagnosis was verified at laparotomy. It is possible that this increase in the number of ectopic pregnancies can be ascribed to the advent of antibiotics. It is postulated that with these new drugs a salpingitis can be corrected before complete closure of the tube — but not before some tubal damage, such . . .
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