Massive Intraperitoneal Hemorrhage from a Ruptured Corpus Luteum

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Abstract
THE value of long-term anticoagulant therapy for the prevention of thromboembolism is widely accepted. Fortunately, major hemorrhagic complications are infrequent and, when recognized promptly, can usually be treated effectively. In contrast to well known and readily diagnosed hazards such as gastrointestinal bleeding, hematuria, cerebral hemorrhage, subcutaneous ecchymoses, epistaxis and hemoptysis, a group of rare, less easily recognized hemorrhagic complications has been described in the past decade. These include spontaneous spinal epidural hematoma,1 bilateral adrenal hemorrhage,2 retroperitoneal hemorrhage,3 hemopericardium,4 hematoma of the rectus abdominis5 and intraperitoneal hemorrhage of ovarian follicular origin.6 The present case appears to constitute the second record of . . .