Fertility outcome following combined methotrexate treatment of unruptured extrauterine pregnancy

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 107, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 626-630

  Debby, Abraham ^a   Golan, Abraham ^a   Sadan, Oscar ^a   Zakut, Haim ^a   Glezerman, Marek ^a  

^a WOLFSON MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; METHOTREXATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; HUMAN; HYSTEROSALPINGOGRAPHY; LAPAROSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALPINGECTOMY; UTERINE TUBE PREGNANCY;

ABORTIFACIENT AGENTS, NONSTEROIDAL; ADULT; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN, BETA SUBUNIT, HUMAN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMANS; METHOTREXATE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PREGNANCY, TUBAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SALPINGOSTOMY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034096164     PISSN: 14700328     EISSN: 14710528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2000.tb13304.x     Document Type: Article

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