Association between low day 16 hcg and miscarriage after proven cardiac activity

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 300-304

  Tong, Stephen ^a   Wallace, Euan M ^a   Rombauts, Luk ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; NAFARELIN ACETATE; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSAY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFERTILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; BLOOD; FETUS HEART RATE; PREGNANCY;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ADULT; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; FEMALE; HEART RATE, FETAL; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33645449894     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: 1873233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AOG.0000196505.09016.f3     Document Type: Article

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