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Cesarean Scar Pregnancy: An Experience Of Three Cases With Review Of Literature, Gulnaz Shafat, Kumail Khandwala, Hina Iqbal, Shaista Afzal Saeed

Department of Radiology

Cesarean scar pregnancy (CSP), often considered the rarest form of ectopic pregnancy, is a result of implantation of the gestational sac into the fibrous tissue scar of a previous cesarean section. With an increase in the rate of cesarean sections, along with better awareness and improvement in sonographic diagnosis, the number and detection of scar pregnancies are on the rise. Because of its early invasion of the myometrium, usually in the first trimester, CSP is considered to be potentially lethal, leading to high risks of uterine rupture. We report a series of three cases of scar pregnancy that presented at …