Hysteroscopic management of cesarean scar ectopic pregnancy

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1735-1740

  Deans, Rebecca ^a   Abbott, Jason ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cesarean; ectopic pregnancy; hysteroscopic surgery

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; ERGOMETRINE; METHOTREXATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; AUSTRALIA; BLEEDING; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CURETTAGE; DILATION AND EVACUATION; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; ELECTROSURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GESTATIONAL SAC ASPIRATION; HEMATOMA; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; HYSTEROSCOPY; HYSTEROTOMY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LIVE BIRTH; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OPERATION DURATION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCAR; SEROLOGY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TERM BIRTH; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; UTERINE ARTERY EMBOLIZATION;

ABORTIFACIENT AGENTS, NONSTEROIDAL; ADULT; CESAREAN SECTION; CICATRIX; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTEROSCOPY; INJECTIONS, INTRALESIONAL; METHOTREXATE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ECTOPIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 77949915193     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.12.099     Document Type: Article

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