False positive hcg

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 719-720

  Hammond, Charles B ^a  

^a ACOG   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; ESTROGEN; HETEROPHILE ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ANTIGEN BINDING; BLOOD SAMPLING; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CASTRATION; CHORIOCARCINOMA; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; EDITORIAL; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FLUOROMETRY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONE URINE LEVEL; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; TROPHOBLASTIC DISEASE; URINALYSIS;

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN, BETA SUBUNIT, HUMAN; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ECTOPIC; TROPHOBLASTIC NEOPLASMS; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0034767239     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: 1873233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0029-7844(01)01616-7     Document Type: Editorial

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