Serum progesterone testing to predict ectopic pregnancy in symptomatic first-trimester patients

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 95-100

  Buckley, Robert G ^a   King, Kerry J ^a   Disney, Jeffrey D ^a   Riffenburgh, Robert H ^a   Gorman, John D ^a   Klausen, Jack H ^a  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; IODINE 125; PROGESTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC;

EID: 0033842952     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mem.2000.108653     Document Type: Article

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