Normal intrauterine pregnancy is unlikely in patients who have echogenic material identified within the endometrial cavity at transvaginal ultrasonography

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 116-120

  Dart, Robert ^a   Dart, Linda ^a   Mitchell, Patricia ^a  

^a BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Echogenic; Ectopic pregnancy; Endometrial cavity; Intrauterine pregnancy; Transvaginal; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033041543     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.1999.tb01047.x     Document Type: Article

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