Role of sonography in the recognition, assessment, and treatment of cesarean scar ectopic pregnancies

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 779-783

  McKenna, David A ^a   Poder, Liina ^a,b   Goldman, Mindy ^a   Goldstein, Ruth B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cesarean scar pregnancy; Ectopic pregnancy; Methotrexate; Transvaginal sonography

Indexed keywords

OBSTETRICS; PATIENT TREATMENT; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

CESAREAN SCAR PREGNANCY; ECTOPIC PREGNANCIES; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MEDICAL TREATMENT; METHOTREXATE; METHOTREXATE (MTX); SONOGRAPHIC APPEARANCE; TRANSVAGINAL SONOGRAPHY;

ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

METHOTREXATE; ABORTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AMENORRHEA; ARTICLE; BREAST ABSCESS; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SCAR ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DRUG ADMINISTRATION ROUTE; ECHOGRAPHY; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAAMNIOTIC DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRACERVICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LABORATORY TEST; MASTALGIA; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; VAGINA BLEEDING; AMNION; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; INJECTION; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PREGNANCY; SCAR;

ABORTIFACIENT AGENTS, NONSTEROIDAL; ADULT; AMNION; CESAREAN SECTION; CICATRIX; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; METHOTREXATE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ECTOPIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 45849145095     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2008.27.5.779     Document Type: Article

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