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In these 84 case reports, 8% of ovarian pregnancies occurred in women without or with blocked oviducts and 23% were localised on the other side than the corpus luteum. Since symptoms are not specific, ovarian pregnancy has to be suspected in all women with abdominal bleeding. Surgical excision is the preferred treatment. However, since an associated intra-uterine pregnancy cannot be excluded, care should be taken not to interrupt this intra-uterine pregnancy with the uterine cannula or by damaging the corpus luteum. In conclusion, in women with abdominal bleeding, an ovarian pregnancy cannot be excluded, even in women with a negative pregnancy test or an empty uterus on transvaginal ultrasonography. Therefore, a laparoscopy is indicated but the surgeon should realise that an associated intra-uterine pregnancy also cannot be excluded and that therefore care should be taken not to interrupt this intra-uterine pregnancy by the uterine cannula or by damaging the corpus luteum.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/jcm12031138","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,2,1]],"date-time":"2023-02-01T02:29:03Z","timestamp":1675218543000},"page":"1138","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":11,"title":["Ovarian Pregnancy: 2 Case Reports and a Systematic Review"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Zukaa","family":"Almahloul","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Latifa Hospital, Dubai P.O. Box 9115, United Arab Emirates"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Bedayah","family":"Amro","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Latifa Hospital, Dubai P.O. 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