Placenta accreta in the first trimester: A case report

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A near miss case of placenta percreta at primary care: A case report

“…Even though diagnosing placenta percreta in the first trimester is difficult [8], it was emphasized the importance of patient surveillance to make a diagnosis beforehand as an early referral and appropriate management can be done to prevent catastrophic complications [9]. The scoring system with the combination of specific ultrasonography findings and maternal high-risk characteristics provides high sensitivity (93.4%) and specificity (82.3%) to diagnose the disease as early as 11 to 14 weeks [9].…”