Summary:
Laparotomy for intra-abdominal haemorrhage due to ectopic
pregnancy is a common practice in Gynaecology. But
laparotomy due to nongynecological causes may rarely
happen in this department. A case report is discussed here
where abdomen was opened as a case of ectopic pregnancy
but subsequently patient needed relaparotomy and finally
diagnosed as an atraumatic splenic rupture. The purpose of
CASE REPORTS
this paper is to bring this differential diagnosis to clinician’s
minds, so that physician can consider the diagnosis of
spontaneous nontraumatic splenic rupture.
Key words: Splenic rupture, intra abdominal haemorrhage
(IAH)
(J Bangladesh Coll Phys Surg 2020; 38: 98-100)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3329/jbcps.v38i2.45635