Caesarean scar pregnancy: A review of management options

Current Opinion in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 415-421

  Litwicka, Katarzyna ^a   Greco, Ermanno ^a  

^a EUROPEAN HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

caesarean scar pregnancy; ectopic pregnancy; scar pregnancy treatment

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; METHOTREXATE; MIFEPRISTONE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; TRICHOSANTHIN;

ASPIRATION; CAESAREAN SCAR PREGNANCY; CURETTAGE; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; EXPECTANT MOTHER; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; GESTATIONAL SAC; HUMAN; HYSTEROSCOPY; HYSTEROTOMY; LAPAROSCOPY; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; UTERINE ARTERY EMBOLIZATION; UTERINE TUBE PREGNANCY; UTERUS RUPTURE;

ABORTIFACIENT AGENTS, NONSTEROIDAL; ABORTION, THERAPEUTIC; CESAREAN SECTION; CICATRIX; COUNSELING; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMANS; HYSTEROSCOPY; METHOTREXATE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ECTOPIC; PRENATAL CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 81255135972     PISSN: 1040872X     EISSN: 1473656X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/GCO.0b013e32834cef0c     Document Type: Review

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