Reevaluating the role of dilation and curettage in the diagnosis of pregnancy of unknown location

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 659-662

  Chung, Karine ^a   Chandavarkar, Uma ^a   Opper, Neisha ^a   Barnhart, Kurt ^b  

^a LAC USC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

dilation and curettage; Ectopic pregnancy; methotrexate

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CURETTAGE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MEDICAL HISTORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY;

ABORTIFACIENT AGENTS, NONSTEROIDAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; COHORT STUDIES; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OBSTETRICAL AND GYNECOLOGICAL; DILATATION AND CURETTAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; METHOTREXATE; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ECTOPIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052262848     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2011.06.017     Document Type: Article

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