Hemorrhagic shock from a ruptured ectopic pregnancy in a patient with a negative urine pregnancy test result

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 102-105

  Kalinski, Michelle A ^a   Guss, David A ^a  

^a UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE COURSE; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PREGNANCY TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT PLANNING; URINALYSIS; UTERINE TUBE; UTERUS BLEEDING;

EID: 0036631173     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mem.2002.125446     Document Type: Article

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