Ectopic pregnancy

Primary Care - Clinics in Office Practice

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 169-183

  Carr, Robert J ^b   Evans, Patricia ^b  

^a Fort Lincoln Family Medicine Center   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

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

CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CURETTAGE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; PERITONEAL FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SALPINGECTOMY; SALPINGOSTOMY; SCREENING TEST;

EID: 0034018513     PISSN: 00954543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0095-4543(05)70154-8     Document Type: Article

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