Successful conservative treatment of a Cesarean scar pregnancy with uterine artery embolization

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 206, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 261-265

  Sugawara, Junichi ^a   Senoo, Masato ^a   Chisaka, Hiroshi ^a   Yaegashi, Nobuo ^a   Okamura, Kunihiro ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cesarean scar pregnancy; Conservative management; Uterine artery embolization

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; METHOTREXATE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BLEEDING; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SCAR PREGNANCY; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CURETTAGE; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; NAUSEA; PATIENT REFERRAL; STOMATITIS; UTERINE ARTERY;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ADULT; CESAREAN SECTION; CICATRIX; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; METHOTREXATE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY, ECTOPIC; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE; UTERINE RUPTURE; UTERUS;

EID: 21244437979     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.206.261     Document Type: Article

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