Persistent ectopic pregnancy after linear salpingotomy: A non-predictable complication to conservative surgery for tubal gestation

Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica

Volumn 81, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1053-1059

  Lund, Claus Otto ^a   Nilas, Lisbeth ^a   Bangsgaard, Nannie ^a   Ottesen, Bent ^a  

^a HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Human chorionic gonadotropin; Methotrexate; Persistent ectopic pregnancy; Prognostic factors; Salpingotomy

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; HEMOPERITONEUM; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROSCOPIC ANATOMY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANK SUM TEST; RISK ASSESSMENT; SALPINGECTOMY; SALPINGOTOMY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TROPHOBLASTIC DISEASE;

ABORTIFACIENT AGENTS; ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; MEDICAL RECORDS; METHOTREXATE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ECTOPIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SALPINGOSTOMY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0036850354     PISSN: 00016349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0412.2002.811110.x     Document Type: Article

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