Ectopic pregnancy in adolescents

Current Opinion in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 475-478

  Vichnin, Michelle ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Ectopic pregnancy; Methotrexate; Risk factors; Teenagers

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; CREATININE; DIHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE; FOLINIC ACID; METHOTREXATE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADD ON THERAPY; ADOLESCENT; ALOPECIA; AMENORRHEA; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG MEGADOSE; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; ENZYME INHIBITION; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FETUS HEART RATE; FOLLOW UP; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE; LAPAROSCOPY; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; NAUSEA; PAIN; PATIENT SELECTION; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SALPINGOSTOMY; SCREENING TEST; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; STOMATITIS; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TREATMENT FAILURE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; UTERINE TUBE; UTERINE TUBE DISEASE; VAGINA BLEEDING; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN, BETA SUBUNIT, HUMAN; CONTRACEPTION; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; METHOTREXATE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY, ECTOPIC; RISK; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 55349111173     PISSN: 1040872X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/GCO.0b013e32830d0ce1     Document Type: Review

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