Heterotopic cervical pregnancy treated with transvaginal ultrasound-guided aspiration resulting in cervical site varices within the myometrium

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 934.e19-934.e22

  Shah, Anish A ^a   Grotegut, Chad A ^a   Likes III, Creighton E ^a   Miller, Michael J ^b   Walmer, David K ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

conservative management; Heterotopic pregnancy; multidisciplinary approach; transvaginal ultrasound guided aspiration; uterine preservation; uterine varices

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNIOCENTESIS; ARTICLE; BALLOON CATHETER; BALLOON OCCLUSION; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INTERNAL ILIAC ARTERY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MYOMETRIUM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OLIGOSPERMIA; ORGAN PRESERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE BLOOD VESSEL; UTERINE CERVIX; UTERINE VARIX; VARICOSIS;

EID: 61349132877     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.10.008     Document Type: Article

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