Spontaneous uterine rupture with fatal hemoperitoneum due to placenta accreta percreta: a case report and review of the literature.

Placenta accreta percreta is an unusual cause of hemoperitoneum. Less than 50 such cases have been reported in the English-language literature over the past 100 years. A 22-year-old pregnant multigravida woman who had spontaneous uterine rupture with exsanguination caused by this entity is described. She had abdominal pain and cardiovascular collapse and died without a premortem diagnosis.