Comparison of success rates in the medical management of ectopic pregnancy with single-dose and multiple-dose administration of methotrexate: a prospective, randomized clinical trial

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1661-1666

  Alleyassin, Ashraf ^a   Khademi, Afsaneh ^a   Aghahosseini, Marzieh ^a   Safdarian, Leili ^a   Badenoosh, Bita ^a   Hamed, Ehsan Akbari ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

hCG; Ectopic pregnancy; methotrexate; pregnancy; success rate

Indexed keywords

FOLINIC ACID; METHOTREXATE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABNORMALLY HIGH SUBSTRATE CONCENTRATION IN BLOOD; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATITIS; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STOMATITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; HUMANS; METHOTREXATE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ECTOPIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33744813507     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2005.11.055     Document Type: Article

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