Treating non-tubal ectopic pregnancy

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 529-538

  Chetty, Maya ^a   Elson, Janine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF LEICESTER NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

abdominal; caesarean scar; cervical pregnancy; cornual; ectopic pregnancy; expectant management; interstitial; laparoscopy; methotrexate; ovarian; uterine artery embolisation

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; METHOTREXATE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; VASOPRESSIN;

ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CESAREAN SECTION SCAR PREGNANCY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CORNUAL PREGNANCY; CURETTAGE; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DRUG EFFICACY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; FEMALE FERTILITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INTERSTITIAL PREGNANCY; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; MULTIPLE DRUG DOSE; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; UTERINE ARTERY EMBOLIZATION; UTERINE CERVIX CERCLAGE; UTERINE CERVIX PREGNANCY; VAGINA BLEEDING;

CERVIX UTERI; CESAREAN SECTION; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN, BETA SUBUNIT, HUMAN; CICATRIX; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; OVARY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ABDOMINAL; PREGNANCY, ECTOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67650085272     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2008.12.011     Document Type: Article

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