The use of serum inhibin A and activin A levels in predicting the outcome of 'pregnancies of unknown location'

Human Reproduction

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2451-2456

  Kirk, Emma ^a   Papageorghiou, Aris T ^a   Van Calster, Ben ^b   Condous, George ^c   Cowans, Nicholas ^d   Van Huffel, Sabine ^b   Timmerman, Dirk ^e   Spencer, Kevin ^d   Bourne, Tom ^a,e,f  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d KING GEORGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^f IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Activin A; Ectopic pregnancy; Human chorionic gonadotrophin; Inhibin A; Pregnancy of unknown location

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN A; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; INHIBIN A; PROGESTERONE;

ARTICLE; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; FEMALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ACTIVINS; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBINS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY, ECTOPIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 70349451760     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/dep066     Document Type: Article

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