Symptomatic patients with an early viable intrauterine pregnancy: hCG curves redefined

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 50-55

  Barnhart, Kurt T ^a   Sammel, Mary D ^b   Rinaudo, Paolo F ^b   Zhou, Lan ^b   Hummel, Amy C ^b   Guo, Wensheng ^b  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CLINICAL TRIAL; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LINEAR RANDOM EFFECTS MODEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PAIN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMIPARAMETRIC CURVE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYMPTOM; SYMPTOMATIC PREGNANCY; BLOOD; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ECTOPIC;

EID: 3242698842     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AOG.0000128174.48843.12     Document Type: Article

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