Failed medical management in ovarian pregnancy despite favorable prognostic factors - A case report

MedGenMed Medscape General Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Bagga, Rashmi ^a   Suri, Vanita ^a   Verma, Preeti ^a   Chopra, Seema ^a   Kalra, Jasvinder ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; METHOTREXATE; ABORTIVE AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHORION VILLUS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORPUS LUTEUM; DECIDUA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS HEART RATE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; OBSTETRIC OPERATION; OVARY PREGNANCY; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY TEST; PROGNOSIS; UTERINE TUBE PREGNANCY; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ABORTIFACIENT AGENTS, NONSTEROIDAL; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; METHOTREXATE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ECTOPIC; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 33646765736     PISSN: 15310132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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