NEW ETIOLOGICAL FACTOR IN ECTOPIC PREGNANCY

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Abstract
In accepting the benefits of recent advances in the treatment of a disease, the clinician must be thoroughly acquainted not only with the favorable alterations in the clinical course of the condition under treatment but with the undesirable sequelae as well. Since the advent of antibiotics, particularly penicillin, the clinical course of infections of the female pelvic organs has radically changed. The number of patients who have been spared surgery or invalidism is gratifying. Most patients with acute salpingitis or acute postabortal infections, if treated early with penicillin, are left with little or no residual damage. Thus, the incidence of sterility following these infections has been reduced considerably. Several years ago we reported results of the use of intramuscularly administered penicillin in the treatment of a series of patients with chronic endocervicitis.1 At that time definite improvement was noted in 94.5% of the patients. More recently the response to

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