Current status of management of ectopic pregnancy

Gynaecological Endoscopy

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 73-79

  Sau, Ashis K ^a,c   Auld, Barry J ^a   Sau, Mita ^b  

^a East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust   (United Kingdom)

^b TAMESIDE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Early diagnosis; Ectopic pregnancy; Expectant treatment; Laparoscopic salpingostomy; Methotrexate

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; FOLINIC ACID; METHOTREXATE; PROSTAGLANDIN;

ALOPECIA; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DRUG COMBINATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GASTRITIS; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYSTEROSALPINGOGRAPHY; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LAPAROSCOPY; LIVER DISEASE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; ORGAN PRESERVATION; PATIENT COUNSELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REPRODUCTION; SALPINGECTOMY; SALPINGOSTOMY; STOMATITIS; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY;

EID: 0033049717     PISSN: 09621091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2508.1999.00247.x     Document Type: Article

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