First trimester bleeding evaluation

Ultrasound Quarterly

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 69-85

  Dogra, Vikram ^a   Paspulati, Raj Mohan ^a   Bhatt, Shweta ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Abnormal vaginal bleeding; Arteriovenous malformation; Ectopic pregnancy; Gestational sac; Gestational trophoblastic disease; Pregnancy and first trimester; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; METHOTREXATE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; PROGESTERONE;

ADNEXA DISEASE; ANEUPLOIDY; ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHORION; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CHRONIC ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ECHOGRAPHY; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; EMBRYO (ANATOMY); FEMALE; FETUS MEMBRANE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HEMATOMA; HERPES SIMPLEX; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; HYDATIDIFORM MOLE; INJECTION; LEIOMYOMA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MISSED ABORTION; MYCOPLASMA HOMINIS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; OLIGOHYDRAMNIOS; OVARY PREGNANCY; PERSISTENT ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; POLYPLOIDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT ABORTION; RETAINED PLACENTA; REVIEW; SEPTIC ABORTION; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; SUBCHORIONIC HEMATOMA; THECOMA; THYROID DISEASE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TRANSABDOMINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; TRISOMY; TROPHOBLASTIC TUMOR; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM; UTERUS CERVIX PREGNANCY; UTERUS CORNU PREGNANCY; UTERUS MALFORMATION; UTERUS SYNECHIA; VAGINA BLEEDING; YOLK SAC;

FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 19544389986     PISSN: 08948771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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