A False Negative Pregnancy Test in a Patient with a Hydatidiform Molar Pregnancy [6]

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 349, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 2172-2173

  Tabas, Jeffrey A ^a   Strehlow, Matthew ^b   Isaacs, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CA 125 ANTIGEN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; PROLACTIN; THYROTROPIN;

ACCURACY; ADULT; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; DRUG MEGADOSE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDATIDIFORM MOLE; IMMUNOASSAY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LETTER; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; URINALYSIS;

ADULT; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN, BETA SUBUNIT, HUMAN; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDATIDIFORM MOLE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TESTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0345714847     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM200311273492221     Document Type: Letter

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