2 clinical cases of tubal pregnancy after incorrect use of the combined pill
Mele, G.A.
Minerva Ginecologica 31(1-2): 37-40
1979
ISSN/ISBN: 0026-4784 PMID: 471310 Document Number: 149178
2 cases of tubal pregnancy in patients on combined oral contraceptives are examined. Both patients had not only failed to take the pill correctly, but had stopped taking it in midcycle. This led to nidation of the fertilized ovun in the left tube, with consequent rupture of the same. Implantation in the tube may be due to slower physiological recovery of tubal motility, as opposed to that of the ovulatory and cervical mechanisms. The article also contains a discussion of the contraceptive mechanism of combined pills.