Second trimester pregnancy loss

American Family Physician

Volumn 76, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1341-1348

  Michels, Thomas C ^a,b   Tiu, Alvin Y ^a  

^a MADIGAN ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Madigan Army Medical Center ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; HEPARIN;

ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME DISORDER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; FETUS DISEASE; FETUS MALFORMATION; FETUS MORTALITY; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GENETIC COUNSELING; GESTATION PERIOD; HUMAN; HYSTEROSCOPY; INFECTION; INJURY; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURE LABOR; REVIEW; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SMOKING; SOLUTIO PLACENTAE; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STILLBIRTH; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TERATOGENICITY; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; THROMBOPHILIA; UTERINE CERVIX CERCLAGE; UTERINE CERVIX INCOMPETENCE;

EID: 36248964154     PISSN: 0002838X     EISSN: 0002838X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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