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A Review of 463 early ectopic pregnancies operated upon at the Groote Schuur Hospital
Abstract
As everybody who has come to grips with statistical :figures knows, they can be the most unrelenting of tyrants or the most amusing of servants. The results of an encounter with the figures involving ectopic pregnancies are presented. During the 5 years 1951-55 there were 12,682 admissions to the gynaecological wards of the Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, of which 463 were early ectopic pregnancies, representjng an incidence of 3·6 %. The pregnancies were tubal in situation in all but one case, in which the implanta- N tion was in the right ovary.
