"Eccentrically placed gestation sac" Confused?

[YourCoralPoster]

Hi!

I had an early scan at roughly 5+5 today as I had an ectopic a few months ago.

During the scan, I was told it's located in the right place this time but when I got home I read on the paper they gave me that it's "eccentrically placed gestation sac."

I have no idea what this means and can't find much when Googling it, aside from bad things?

Why would they not have said anything while scanning me? They made it seem as if all was fine?

This is exactly what it said: "Seen in the endometrial cavity is an eccentrically placed gestation sac, yolk sac seen. Fetal pole seen with CRL = 2.6mm ~ 5 weeks+. Fetal heart pulsation seen. Both ovaries appear normal with a corpus luteum on the right ovary. No adnexal masses or free fluid seen.

Comment: Single viable intrauterine pregnancy ~ 5 +."

Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!

Did it mean “centrally placed”?

Could be a typo, autocorrect or dictation error?

I'd also imagine ( with no expertise or experience for what that's worth) that it's supposed to say centrally placed.

No it just means it's not in the centre-it will be in the left or the right, or front or back, attached to the wall. All is well.

This is normal, eccentric just means it’s not central, ie slightly to the side and implanting into the wall of the uterus as it should be. It’s part of normal development. The reason they comment is that you can get what’s called a “pseudosac” in ectopic pregnancy where there is something that looks like a gestation sac in the uterus. A pseudosac would be centrally placed. It’s really not that relevant for your pregnancy though seeing as there is a fetal pole within the sac, would only matter if the sac looked empty because then ectopic is still not ruled out. Congrats OP all is well :)