Successful pregnancy after early luteectomy.

A 31-year-old women, para 1, was admitted with acute lower abdominal pain. Examination revealed a tender right adnexal mass confirmed by endovaginal ultrasonography. She reported a regular menstrual cycle of 30-31 days and was on day 31 of her cycle on admission. All laboratory results were normal and a urinary pregnancy test was negative. After 2 days a laparotomy was performed and an oophorectomy was carried out because of a bleeding ruptured right ovarian cyst. Histologic examination reported a haemorrhagic corpus luteum. Eight weeks after laparotomy a viable intra-uterine pregnancy was observed and finally a 3850-g healthy male was delivered. An oophorectomy at a corrected gestational age of 30 days did not disturb the course of the pregnancy.