Methotrexate versus laparoscopic surgery for the management of unruptured tubal pregnancy

Middle East Fertility Society Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 256-262

  El Sherbiny, Mohamed Tawfik ^a,d   El Gharieb, Ibrahim Hussein ^b   Mera, Ismael Mohamed ^c  

^a Damietta Cancer Institute   (Egypt)

^b Mataria Teaching Hospital   (Egypt)

^c AL AZHAR UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^d Department Obstetrics and Gynecology   (Egypt)

Author keywords

And laparoscopic salpingectomy; Ectopic pregnancy; Laparoscopic salpingostomy; Methotrexate

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; METHOTREXATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER TOXICITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUTROPENIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; SALPINGECTOMY; SALPINGOSTOMY; SUBCUTANEOUS EMPHYSEMA; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE TUBE PREGNANCY;

EID: 0348231945     PISSN: 11105690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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