Successful management of a triplet heterotopic caesarean scar pregnancy after in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 291.e1-291.e3

  Litwicka, Katarzyna ^a   Greco, Ermanno ^a   Prefumo, Federico ^b   Fratelli, Nicola ^b   Scarselli, Filomena ^a   Ferrero, Susanna ^a   Iammarrone, Elisabetta ^a   Frusca, Tiziana ^b  

^a EUROPEAN HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Caesarean scar pregnancy; embryo reduction; heterotopic pregnancy; methotrexate; potassium chloride

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; METHOTREXATE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; AZOOSPERMIA; BLADDER WALL; BREECH PRESENTATION; CAESAREAN SCAR PREGNANCY; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EAR MALFORMATION; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FINGER MALFORMATION; GESTATIONAL SAC; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYSTEROSCOPE; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; MILLER FINEMAN SMITH SYNDROME; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; MYOMETRIUM; NEEDLE; NEWBORN; OOCYTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAR; SOLUTIO PLACENTAE; TESTICULAR SPERM EXTRACTION; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TROPHOBLAST; UTERUS; VAGINA BLEEDING; VASCULARIZATION; YOLK SAC;

EID: 78650416254     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2010.05.025     Document Type: Article

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