If the fallopian tube is significantly damaged, it might need to be removed.

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This time the surgeon got the appendix -- and a fallopian tube.

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Other instruments can be inserted into the tube or through other small incisions to remove the ectopic tissue and repair the fallopian tube.

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If the ectopic pregnancy is causing heavy bleeding or the fallopian tube has ruptured, you might need emergency surgery through an abdominal incision (laparotomy).

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Then, sometime between 12 and 50 years after the two of you left your grandmother, you burst forth and were sucked by her fimbriae into the fallopian tube.

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In some cases, the fallopian tube can be repaired.

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When news of the second case became public, the hospital's chief executive, Dr. Vivian Wong Taam Chi-woon, insisted that the surgeon was right to remove the fallopian tube because it was seriously inflamed.

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