Serum biomarkers of tubal ectopic pregnancy: Current candidates and future possibilities

Reproduction

Volumn 138, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 9-22

  Cartwright, Joanna ^a   Duncan, W Colin ^a   Critchley, Hilary O D ^a   Horne, Andrew W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN A; ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CA 125 ANTIGEN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; CREATINE KINASE; ESTRADIOL; HUMAN PLACENTA LACTOGEN; INHIBIN A; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; MYOGLOBIN; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN; PEPTIDE; PLACENTA PROTEIN 14; PREGNANCY ASSOCIATED PLASMA PROTEIN A; PREGNANCY SPECIFIC BETA1 GLYCOPROTEIN; PROGESTERONE; RELAXIN; RENIN; STEROID; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; VASCULOTROPIN;

CLINICAL FEATURE; CORPUS LUTEUM FUNCTION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOGRAPHY; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; EMBRYO GROWTH; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; INFLAMMATION; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; PERITONEAL DISEASE; PRENATAL GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; REVIEW; SMOOTH MUSCLE; TROPHOBLASTIC DISEASE; UTERINE TUBE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CORPUS LUTEUM; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, TUBAL; PROGNOSIS; UTERUS;

EID: 70449428026     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: 17417899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-09-0060     Document Type: Review

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