Ectopic pregnancy

Lancet

Volumn 366, Issue 9485, 2005, Pages 583-591

  Farquhar, Cynthia M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; FOLINIC ACID; METHOTREXATE; MIFEPRISTONE; PROGESTERONE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ALOPECIA; BIOCHEMISTRY; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONFERENCE PAPER; CURETTAGE; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIARRHEA; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; FEVER; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GASTRITIS; HAEMATOSALPINX; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROSCOPY; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; META ANALYSIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NAUSEA; NEUTROPENIA; PELVIC DISEASE; PELVIC HAEMATOCOELE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SALPINGECTOMY; SALPINGOSTOMY; SCREENING; SERUM; SIDE EFFECT; STOMATITIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TERATOGENICITY; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; UTERINE TUBE DISEASE; VOMITING;

EID: 23744515304     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(05)67103-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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