Serum levels of myoglobin, creatine phosphokinase, and smooth muscle heavy-chain myosin in patients with ectopic pregnancy

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 628-632

  Birkhahn, Robert H ^a   Gaeta, Theodore J ^a   Paraschiv, Diana ^a   Bove, Joseph J ^a   Suzuki, Toru ^b   Katoh, Hirohisa ^b   Nagai, Ryozo ^b  

^a NEW YORK METHODIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; CREATINE KINASE; MYOGLOBIN; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN;

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUSCLE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCREENING TEST;

EID: 0035209818     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mem.2001.119851     Document Type: Article

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