%0 Journal Article
%T Fatal ruptured ectopic pregnancy ¨C a case report
%A Girish Chandra
%A S Praveen
%A SH Jayanth
%J Medico
%@ 2042-1834
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0025817218795337
%X A 26-year-old unmarried female with a history of acute abdominal pain and bleeding per vagina was brought unresponsive to the hospital. She was in shock on arrival and could not be resuscitated. Death was registered as a medico-legal case. Further investigation by the police revealed that she had amenorrhoea for eight weeks and had tested positive for pregnancy. She had consumed abortion pills purchased from a local pharmacist without consulting a doctor and had developed acute abdominal pain after 48£¿h. Autopsy revealed a ruptured ectopic pregnancy (tubal type)
%K Attempted abortion
%K pills bought from local pharmacy
%K ectopic pregnancy
%K tubal
%K amenorrhoea
%K acute abdominal pain
%K autopsy
%K ultrasound
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0025817218795337