Successful pregnancy outcome after cervical dilation with multiple laminaria tents in preparation for second-trimester elective abortion: a report of two cases.

Two patients at 22 weeks' gestation underwent extensive cervical dilation with laminaria tents for elective abortion but continued their pregnancies instead. Both had normal deliveries. For the unusual patient who chooses not to carry out an abortion initiated with cervical dilation, successful pregnancy is possible and therapeutic intervention such as cervical cerclage seems inadvisable.