Pitfalls in First-Trimester Bleeding

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 219-234

  Promes, Susan B ^a   Nobay, Flavia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency department; First trimester; Pregnancy; Vaginal bleeding

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; METHOTREXATE; MISOPROSTOL; RHESUS D ANTIBODY;

BACTEROIDES; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CURETTAGE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ECHOGRAPHY; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EMERGENCY WARD; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; GYNECOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; HUMAN; IMMINENT ABORTION; INCOMPLETE ABORTION; INTRAPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; NIDATION; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; REVIEW; SEPTIC ABORTION; SOLUTIO PLACENTAE; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; VAGINA BLEEDING;

EID: 70450245398     PISSN: 07338627     EISSN: 07338627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.emc.2009.10.005     Document Type: Review

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