Successful management of a consecutive cervical pregnancy by sonographically guided transvaginal local injection: Case report and review of the literature

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 959-965

  Ferrara, Lauren ^a   Belogolovkin, Victoria ^a   Gandhi, Manisha ^a   Litton, Christian ^a   Jacobs, Adam ^a   Saltzman, Daniel ^a   Rebarber, Andrei ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical pregnancy; Ectopic pregnancy; Intra amniotic; Local therapy; Methotrexate; Potassium chloride

Indexed keywords

PATIENT TREATMENT; POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

CERVICAL PREGNANCY; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; INTRA AMNIOTIC; LOCAL THERAPY; METHOTREXATE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; METHOTREXATE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; PROSTAGLANDIN F2 ALPHA;

ADULT; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; CURETTAGE; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INFECTION; INJECTION; MEDLINE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY;

EID: 34447124400     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2007.26.7.959     Document Type: Review

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