Current challenges in the assessment and management of patients with bleeding in early pregnancy

Emergency Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 219-222

  Bryan, Sheila ^a  

^a ROYAL WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ectopic pregnancy

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; MISOPROSTOL;

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; ECHOGRAPHY; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; EMERGENCY WARD; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOPREGNANCY; YOLK SAC;

EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY, ECTOPIC; ULTRASONICS; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 0038209837     PISSN: 10356851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-2026.2003.00462.x     Document Type: Article

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