Novel placental and nonplacental serum markers in ectopic versus normal intrauterine pregnancy

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1106-1111

  Mueller, Michael D ^a,b   Raio, Luigi ^b   Spoerri, Stephan ^c   Ghezzi, Fabio ^d   Dreher, Ekkehard ^b   Bersinger, Nick A ^b  

^a Universitats Frauenklinik   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c Hopital Cantonal de Fribourg   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ectopic pregnancy; P; Plasma protein A; Vascular endothelial growth factor

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; HUMAN PLACENTA LACTOGEN; PLACENTA PROTEIN 14; PREGNANCY ASSOCIATED PLASMA PROTEIN A; PREGNANCY SPECIFIC BETA1 GLYCOPROTEIN; PROGESTERONE; VASCULOTROPIN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; PLACENTA; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 1842422351     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2003.08.049     Document Type: Article

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