Double Uterus, Fetus, Baby, Uterine Fibroids

Double Uterus, Fetus, Uterine Fibroids

Narayan Patel, M.D. is a professor emeritus in obstetric & Gynecology from N.H.L. Municipal medical college Ahmedabad- India. He has 24 years experience of teaching in medical college as assistant professor and then as professor. His special interest is in medical teaching, infertility, microsurgery, operative surgery including endoscopic surgery. Thank you Dr. Patel for permission to publish this article! - Hope

This patient was operated on many years ago by where sonography was not available in my city. She has history of 3 normal deliveries in a village and as she had menorragia. She came to us.

Our preoperative diagnosis was fibroid. We diagnosed this only when we opened her uterus.
Photos: Both uterus are well developed. Cut specimen are shown.

This patient came to us with pain in her abdomen and bleeding. This happened many years back when sonography was not available in my town. We diagnosed it as missed abortion and attemped to terminate the pregnancy after we dilated her cervix. To our luck we curtated the normal unpregnant uterus. We diagnosed the extra horn pregnancy after opening the abdomen. As she was multi para, we did hysterectomy. Cut surface of uterus shows the small fetus. We called a photographer and took its video of this operation.

This patient had under developed extra horn of Uterus. The picture shows small extra horn opened up and it shows uterine cavity. This was an accidental finding. It happened about 20 years back.