The efficacy of multiple-dose methotrexate treatment for unruptured tubal ectopic pregnancy and conversion rate to surgery: A study on 294 cases

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 93, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2415-2417

  Balci, Osman ^a   Ozdemir, Suna ^a   Mahmoud, Alaa S ^a   Acar, Ali ^a   Colakoglu, Mehmet C ^a  

^a SELCUK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Ectopic pregnancy; Gestational mass size; Methotrexate

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; FOLINIC ACID; METHOTREXATE; ABORTIVE AGENT;

ACUTE ABDOMEN; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; GESTATIONAL AGE; GESTATIONAL SAC; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LEUKOPENIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; MULTIPLE DRUG DOSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPEATED DRUG DOSE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ANIMAL EMBRYO; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; DRUG EFFECT; FOLLOW UP; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PREGNANCY; STATISTICS; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE TUBE;

ABORTIFACIENT AGENTS, NONSTEROIDAL; ADULT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GESTATIONAL AGE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; METHOTREXATE; ORGAN SIZE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ECTOPIC; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77952576805     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.09.014     Document Type: Article

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