A case report of a live birth following a term pregnancy located in a non-communicating rudimentary horn of a unicornuate uterus in a rural hospital in Nigeria is presented. A 32-year-old primiparous woman registered for antenatal care at a rural missionary hospital at 28 weeks gestation. She had intermittent unexplained vaginal bleeding prior to booking and multiple ultrasound scans in differe...

BACKGROUND The unicornuate uterine anomaly is often difficult to diagnose and usually low on the list of differential diagnoses for pelvic pain and dysmenorrhea. The authors present a case of a rudimentary uterine horn as a cause for continued pelvic pain and dysmenorrhea in a previously hysterectomized woman. CASE REPORT A 43-year-old woman, gravida 1, para 1, presented for evaluation of rig...

BACKGROUND To report a placenta percreta in a 7-week gestational rudimentary noncommunicating uterine horn pregnancy. METHODS A 28-year-old woman with no complaints presented with a rudimentary uterine horn pregnancy at 7-weeks gestation. The diagnosis was suspected by ultrasonography and diagnosed by laparoscopy. Laparoscopic excision of the rudimentary uterine horn and ipsilateral salpingec...

Unicornuate uterus with noncommunicating rudimentary horn occurs due to incomplete fusion of mullerian ducts. Pregnancy in this horn is a rare phenomenon usually resulting in rupture during second trimester of pregnancy. Prerupture diagnosis of pregnancy in rudimentary horn with ultrasonography is technically difficult, with sensitivity of 30%. We report a case of ruptured non-communicating rud...

Uterine malformations form a non-homogenous group of pathologies with a variable impact on reproduction, often not strictly related to the apparent seriousness of pathology. It concerns about 1-5% of women. Among the many tecniques, invasive and not, useful to diagnosis, many authors believe that laparoscopy associated with hysteroscopy allows diagnosis in all cases. Many references confirm thi...