Endometrial color flow/image-directed Doppler imaging: Negative predictive value for excluding ectopic pregnancy

Journal of Clinical Ultrasound

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 103-109

  Dubinsky, Theodore J ^a   Parvey, H Richard ^a   Maklad, Nabil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

color Doppler ultrasonography; ectopic pregnancy; endometrium; transvaginal ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; REFRACTION INDEX; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOMETRIUM; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ECTOPIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 0031019233     PISSN: 00912751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0096(199703)25:3<103::AID-JCU2>3.0.CO;2-K     Document Type: Article

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