HYSTEROGRAPHY AS AN AID IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF ABDOMINAL PREGNANCY

22 February 1936

journal article
research article
Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA

Vol. 106 (8) , 606-608
https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1936.02770080020007

Abstract

There appear to be in the literature reports of only seven cases in which the injection of iodized oil into the uterine cavity was employed for the purpose of verifying a diagnosis of abdominal pregnancy. The first one to use hysterography for this purpose was Bermann¹in 1925. The others who employed this procedure were Gabaston and Harguindeguy,²Mendenhall,³Couvelaire, Portes and Digonnet,⁴Osborn⁵and Nölle.⁶It is true that such gestations are not often encountered and even when present are frequently not suspected. However, when a diagnosis of abdominal pregnancy seems to be the correct one, injection of iodized oil into the uterus is not only a simple and relatively harmless procedure but presents absolute evidence of the presence of a pregnancy outside the uterine cavity. A roentgenogram taken of an abdominal pregnancy without previous injection of an opaque substance into the uterus

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