Current status of surgical and nonsurgical management of ectopic pregnancy

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 421-433

  Yao, Mylene ^a   Tulandi, Togas ^a  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ectopic pregnancy; expe ctant management; intrauterine pregnancy rate; laparoscopy; laparotomy; methotrexate; recurrent ectopic pregnancy rate; salpingectomy; salpingotomy

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; METHOTREXATE;

ALOPECIA; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG COST; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; GASTRITIS; HUMAN; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; SALPINGECTOMY; SALPINGOSTOMY; STOMATITIS;

EID: 0031024507     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(97)80064-7     Document Type: Article

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