Factors related to successful misoprostol treatment for early pregnancy failure

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 107, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 901-907

  Creinin, Mitchell D ^a   Huang, Xiangke ^b   Westhoff, Carolyn ^b   Barnhart, Kurt ^b   Gilles, Jerry M ^b   Zhang, Jun ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MISOPROSTOL; ABORTIVE AGENT;

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP RHESUS SYSTEM; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; LOWER ABDOMINAL PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NULLIPARA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; VACUUM ASPIRATION; VAGINA BLEEDING; ABORTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CURETTAGE; INDUCED ABORTION; MATERNAL AGE; METHODOLOGY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REFERENCE VALUE; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ABORTIFACIENT AGENTS, NONSTEROIDAL; ABORTION, INCOMPLETE; ABORTION, INDUCED; ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; MATERNAL AGE; MISOPROSTOL; ODDS RATIO; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK ASSESSMENT; VACUUM CURETTAGE;

EID: 33646100533     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AOG.0000206737.68709.3e     Document Type: Article

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