Ectopic pregnancy early diagnosis markers

Minerva Ginecologica

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 49-62

  Segal, S ^a   Mercado, R ^a   Rivnay, B ^b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Repromedix Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological markers; Early diagnosis; Pregnancy, ectopic

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN A; ALPHA1 INTEGRIN; ALPHA5 INTEGRIN; BETA1 INTEGRIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CA 125 ANTIGEN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; CREATINE KINASE; CYTOKERATIN 7; DNA MARKER; ESTRADIOL; FIBRONECTIN; HUMAN PLACENTA LACTOGEN; INHIBIN A; INHIBIN B; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; METALLOPROTEINASE; MUCIN 1; MYELOPID; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PLACENTA PROTEIN 14; PREGNANCY ASSOCIATED PLASMA PROTEIN A; PREGNANCY SPECIFIC BETA1 GLYCOPROTEIN; PROGESTERONE; UNINDEXED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADNEXA DISEASE; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; BREAKTHROUGH BLEEDING; CESAREAN SECTION; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DELIVERY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; ECTOPIC TISSUE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMERGENCY WARD; ENDOMETRIUM; EPIDERMOID TUMOR; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FETUS HEART RATE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATIONAL AGE; GYNECOLOGIC INFECTION; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; IMMINENT ABORTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMPLANTATION; INCIDENCE; INCOMPLETE ABORTION; INDUCED ABORTION; INTRAUTERINE CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE; LAPAROSCOPY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MISSED ABORTION; MORBIDITY; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY TEST; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRENATAL MORTALITY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEOMICS; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; SRY GENE; SURFACE ENHANCED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TROPHOBLAST; ULTRASOUND; UTERINE TUBE; UTERINE TUBE PREGNANCY; UTERINE TUBE SURGERY; UTERUS BLOOD FLOW; UTERUS CAVITY; VAGINA BLEEDING;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD PROTEINS; CREATINE KINASE; CYTOKINES; DNA; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FETAL PROTEINS; FIBRONECTINS; HORMONES; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY PROTEINS; PREGNANCY, ECTOPIC; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 77952859479     PISSN: 00264784     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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