Incidence of Early Loss of Pregnancy

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 319, Issue 4, 1988, Pages 189-194

  Wilcox, Allen J ^a   Weinberg, Clarice R ^a   O'connor, John F ^b   Baird, Donna D ^a   Schlatterer, John P ^b   Canfield, Robert E ^b   Armstrong, E Glenn ^b   Nisula, Bruce C ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; RADIOISOTOPE;

COMPLICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNORADIOMETRIC ASSAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION;

EID: 0023740326     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198807283190401     Document Type: Article

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