Ectopic pregnancy

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 361, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 379-

  Barnhart, Kurt T ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ABORTIVE AGENT; METHOTREXATE;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CURETTAGE; DILATION AND EVACUATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; FEMALE; HUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VAGINAL DELIVERY; BLOOD; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; PREGNANCY TEST; UTERINE TUBE;

ABORTIFACIENT AGENTS, NONSTEROIDAL; ADULT; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; HUMANS; METHOTREXATE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TESTS; PREGNANCY, ECTOPIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 67651177703     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcp0810384     Document Type: Article

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