Slow rising serial chorionic gonadotropins predict poor pregnancy outcome despite sonographic viability

Clinical and Experimental Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 193-194

  Check, J H ^a,b   Liss, J R ^a   Katz, Y ^a   Shucoski, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fetal viability; Slow rising beta hCG levels; Sonography

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWN RUMP LENGTH; EVALUATION; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GONADOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT GUIDANCE; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY;

ADULT; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; COHORT STUDIES; CROWN-RUMP LENGTH; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETAL MONITORING; HEART RATE, FETAL; HUMANS; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PRENATAL CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 0344824408     PISSN: 03906663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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