Early pregnancy failure: Factors affecting successful medical treatment

Israel Medical Association Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 325-328

  Odeh, Marwan ^a,b   Tendler, Rene ^a,b   Kais, Mohamad ^a,b   Maximovsky, Olga ^a,b   Ophir, Ella ^a,b   Bornstein, Jacob ^a,b  

^a WESTERN GALILEE HOSPITAL   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Anembryonic pregnancy; Early pregnancy failure; Gestational sac volume; Medical treatment; Misoprostol; Missed abortion

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; MISOPROSTOL; ABORTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLIGHTED OVUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWN RUMP LENGTH; DILATION AND EVACUATION; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATIONAL AGE; GESTATIONAL SAC VOLUME; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MISSED ABORTION; PARAMETERS CONCERNING THE FETUS, NEWBORN AND PREGNANCY; PARITY; PREDICTION; THICKNESS; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UTERUS CAVITY; ABORTION, MISSED; ADOLESCENT; BLOOD; ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; PREGNANCY; YOUNG ADULT;

ABORTIFACIENT AGENTS, NONSTEROIDAL; ABORTION, MISSED; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN, BETA SUBUNIT, HUMAN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MISOPROSTOL; PREGNANCY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954465388     PISSN: 15651088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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