As a result of the more sensitive diagnostic tools, together with an increased awareness among both the public and health care providers which resulted from the world-wide epidemic of ectopic
pregnancies during 1980s the former clinical picture of ectopic pregnancy as a life-threatening disease has changed into a more benign condition in women who are frequently asymptomatic or show a mild clinical picture dominated by vaginal bleeding and/or slight abdominal discomfort (33, 34).