Conservative management of cervical ectopic pregnancy: Utility of uterine artery embolization

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 872-876

  Zakaria, Mark A ^a   Abdallah, Mazen E ^a   Shavell, Valerie I ^a   Berman, Jay M ^a   Diamond, Michael P ^a   Kmak, David C ^b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DETROIT MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

case series; Cervical pregnancy; ectopic pregnancy; infertility; intra amniotic KCl; methotrexate; uterine artery embolization

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; FOLINIC ACID; HEMOGLOBIN; METHOTREXATE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CASE STUDY; CERVICAL ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FETUS HEART RATE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEMODYNAMICS; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MATERNAL AGE; MONOTHERAPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARITY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UTERINE ARTERY EMBOLIZATION; VAGINA BLEEDING;

ABORTIFACIENT AGENTS, NONSTEROIDAL; ADULT; CERVIX UTERI; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; LEUCOVORIN; METHOTREXATE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ECTOPIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UTERINE ARTERY; VITAMIN B COMPLEX;

EID: 79951943639     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2010.12.024     Document Type: Article

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