[Abdominal pregnancy].

A 38-year-old woman, after a spontaneous abortion following extrauterine pregnancy, developed abdominal pregnancy which was diagnosed only 6 days before the term of delivery, although she had been regularly examined. In the first trimester of that pregnancy she wanted to interrupt pregnancy and an alleged artificial abortus was performed. By cesarean section a live, at term baby, 3000/50, was born without any visible malformations. The placenta was left in situ because it partly adhered to the colon sigmoideum, mesosigma, and the wall of the small pelvis. Although it is better in abdominal pregnancy with cesaren section to remove the placenta immediately, the authors think that to leave the placenta in situ is safer if its position is such that to remove it would expose the patient to great risk.