Fertility performance and obstetric outcomes among women with previous cesarean scar pregnancy

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1179-1184

  Maymon, Ron ^a   Svirsky, Ran ^a   Smorgick, Noam ^a   Mendlovic, Sonia ^a   Halperin, Reuvit ^a   Gilad, Karin ^b   Tobvin, Yosef ^a  

^a ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cesarean scar pregnancy; Fertility; Obstetric outcomes; Sonography

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

AFTER-TREATMENT; CESAREAN SCAR PREGNANCY; FERTILITY; IN-VITRO; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTIONS;

OBSTETRICS;

ABORTIVE AGENT; METHOTREXATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; ECHOGRAPHY; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INDUCED ABORTION; ISRAEL; METHODOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCAR;

ABORTIFACIENT AGENTS, NONSTEROIDAL; ABORTION, INDUCED; ADULT; CESAREAN SECTION; CICATRIX; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; ISRAEL; METHOTREXATE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY, ECTOPIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 80052435081     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2011.30.9.1179     Document Type: Article

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