EVALUATION OF TRANSABDOMINAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY FOR ECTOPIC PREGNANCY

Ultrasound examination was performed on 66 patients with suspected ect opic pregnancy of 23 women who had the diagnosis confirmed at laparoto my, 16 (69.6%) were correctly identified on ultrasound, 4 were reporte d as unlikely ectopic pregnancies and 3 were undetermined Two patients with false negative ultrasound reports had positive findings on ultra sound, but the findings were misinterpreted. Correct identification of these would have increased the true positive rate to 78.3% and decrea sed the false negative rate to 8.8%. There were 5 false positive repor ts due to ovarian cysts.