Monday, July 28, 2014

PHOTO: 8 Week Fetus From Ruptured Tubal Pregnancy

This eight-week-old fetus was extracted from a ruptured tubal pregnancy. The Crown-Rump Length and lack of defined digits suggests to me that it's 8 weeks LMP and not 8 weeks since fertilization.





Source: 
"Need for bedside emergency department ultrasonography: case report of a ruptured ectopic pregnancy"
Eric Laviolette, MD 
Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2004;6(2):112-115

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