Methotrexate as a possible cause of ovarian cysts formation: Experience with women treated for ectopic pregnancies

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 786-788

  Ben Shlomo, Izhar ^a   Eliyahu, Shlomo ^a   Yanai, Nili ^a   Shalev, Eliezer ^a  

^a HAEMEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Ectopic pregnancy; methotrexate; ovarian cysts; salpingostomy

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; METHOTREXATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL FEATURE; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; OVARY CYST; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SALPINGOSTOMY; TREATMENT PLANNING; UTERINE TUBE PREGNANCY;

EID: 0031000880     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(97)81385-4     Document Type: Article

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