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Ruptured primary intrahepatic ectopic pregnancy: A case report and review of literature
Gajendra Bhati, Federico Maria Mongardini, Kamna Bhati, Pushpinder Singh, Raghav Bansal, Ayush Bansal, Samridhi Mahajan, Ludovico Docimo, Marco Caricato, Gabriella Teresa Capolupo, Filippo Carannante
Gajendra Bhati, Department of Surgical Gastroenterology and Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Bathinda Punjab, Bathinda 151101, Punjab, India
Federico Maria Mongardini, Department of General, Mininvasive, Oncologic and Obesity Surgery, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli,” Naples 80131, Italy
Kamna Bhati, Department of Dietetics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Bathinda 151001, Punjab, India
Pushpinder Singh, Department of Radiodiagnostic, Adesh Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Bathinda 151001, Punjab, India
Raghav Bansal, Samridhi Mahajan, Adesh Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Bathinda 151001, Punjab, India
Ayush Bansal, Adesh Institute of Dental Sciences and Research, Bathinda 151001, India
Ludovico Docimo, Department of Surgery, XI Division of General, Minivasive and Obesity Surgery Master of Coloproctology and Master of Pelvi-Perineal Rehabilitation, Napoli 80100, Napoli, Italy
Marco Caricato, Gabriella Teresa Capolupo, Filippo Carannante, UOC Chirurgia Colorettale, Fondazione Policlinico Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Roma 00128, Italy
Co-corresponding authors: Raghav Bansal and Filippo Carannante.
Author contributions: Bhati G and Bansal R were involved in patient management and surgical treatment; Singh P performed and interpreted the radiological investigations; Mongardini FM, Docimo L, Caricato M, and Capolupo GT provided surgical supervision and critical clinical input; Bhati K, Bansal A, and Mahajan S collected clinical data and performed the literature review; Carannante F conceived and designed the study, critically revised the manuscript for important intellectual content, and approved the final version; All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Bansal R and Carannante F jointly conceptualized and designed the study. Bansal R was primarily responsible for the clinical and surgical aspects of the case, including patient evaluation, diagnostic assessment, surgical decision-making, and intraoperative management. He coordinated the collection of clinical data and was responsible for drafting the case presentation with a focus on the clinical course and surgical findings. In addition, Bansal R conducted a comprehensive review of the literature and contributed substantially to the interpretation of clinical and imaging findings, integrating existing evidence into the discussion section. Carannante F played a leading role in the overall supervision and critical revision of the manuscript. He thoroughly reviewed all sections of the manuscript for scientific accuracy, clinical relevance, and editorial consistency, and supervised the entire revision process. Carannante F ensured alignment with the journal’s requirements, coordinated the response to the editors’ and peer reviewers’ comments, and oversaw the final structure and content of the manuscript prior to submission. Both Bansal R and Carannante F made substantial and indispensable contributions to manuscript preparation, critical revision for important intellectual content, and final approval of the version to be published. They jointly take responsibility for the integrity of the work as a whole and for all aspects of the study. The complementary clinical, surgical, and academic contributions of Bansal R and Carannante F were essential for the completion of this manuscript. For these reasons, both authors qualify as co-corresponding authors.
Informed consent statement: Written informed consent was obtained from the patient for publication of this report and any accompanying images.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest to disclose.
CARE Checklist (2016) statement: The authors have read the CARE Checklist (2016) and the manuscript was prepared and revised according to the CARE Checklist (2016).
Open Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See:
https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Corresponding author: Filippo Carannante, MD, PhD, Academic Fellow, Additional Professor, FACS, UOC Chirurgia Colorettale, Fondazione Policlinico Campus Bio-Medico, Via Alvaro del Portillo 200 Policlinico Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Roma 00128, Italy.
f.carannante@unicampus.it
Received: December 25, 2025
Revised: December 31, 2025
Accepted: January 22, 2026
Published online: February 26, 2026
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