Heterotopic pregnancy: Successful management with aspiration of cornual/interstitial gestational sac and instillation of small dose of methotrexate

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-4

  Oyawoye, Seye ^a   Chander, Bina ^b   Pavlovic, Biserka ^b   Hunter, Jocelyn ^b   Gadir, Ahmed Abdel ^b  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Highgate Private Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cornual pregnancy; Heterotopic pregnancy; Local methotrexate

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; METHOTREXATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; BETA THALASSEMIA; BIRTH WEIGHT; CASE REPORT; CELL GROWTH; COST MINIMIZATION ANALYSIS; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INJECTION; LABOR; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; RISK; SYMPTOM; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TROPHOBLAST; VACUUM EXTRACTION; VAGINA BLEEDING;

EID: 0037259235     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000066374     Document Type: Article

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