Predicting pregnancy failure in 'empty' gestational sacs

Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 9-12

  Nyberg, D A ^a   Filly, R A ^b  

^a Scottsdale Medical Imaging   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTROGEN; HORMONE; HUMAN PLACENTA LACTOGEN; PREGNANCY SPECIFIC BETA1 GLYCOPROTEIN; PROGESTERONE;

AMNION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; FOLLOW UP; GESTATIONAL AGE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; MENSTRUATION; NOTE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYMPTOM; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TROPHOBLASTIC DISEASE; VAGINA BLEEDING; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REFERENCE VALUE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STANDARD;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 0037809389     PISSN: 09607692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/uog.33     Document Type: Note

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