Cesarean scar ectopic pregnancy: case series and review of the literature

American Journal of Perinatology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 111-120

  Sadeghi, Homayoun ^a   Rutherford, Thomas ^a   Rackow, Beth W ^a   Campbell, Katherine H ^a   Duzyj, Christina M ^a   Guess, Marsha K ^a   Kodaman, Pinar H ^a   Norwitz, Errol R ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cesarean scar ectopic; Ectopic pregnancy

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; METHOTREXATE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INTRAUTERINE CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE; LAPAROTOMY; PATIENT COUNSELING; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPEATED DRUG DOSE; REVIEW; SCAR; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE ARTERY EMBOLIZATION;

ABORTIFACIENT AGENTS, NONSTEROIDAL; ADULT; CESAREAN SECTION; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CICATRIX; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; METHOTREXATE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ECTOPIC; UTERINE ARTERY EMBOLIZATION; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 76249127537     PISSN: 07351631     EISSN: 10988785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1224874     Document Type: Review

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