Ectopic pregnancy: History, incidence, epidemiology, and risk factors

Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 376-386

  Marion, Laura L ^a   Meeks, George Rodney ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ectopic pregnancy; epidemiology; history; incidence; risks

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; METHOTREXATE; MIFEPRISTONE; PROGESTERONE;

ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CESAREAN SECTION; CHLAMYDIASIS; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; DRUG SAFETY; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GAMETE INTRAFALLOPIAN TRANSFER; GONORRHEA; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; HYSTEROTOMY; INFECTION; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRAUTERINE CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE; LAPAROSCOPY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORAL CONTRACEPTION; OVULATION INHIBITION; PAIN; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK FACTOR; SALPINGITIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; UTERINE TUBE OCCLUSION; UTERINE TUBE STERILIZATION; UTERUS MYOMA; VAGINAL LAVAGE;

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ECTOPIC; RISK FACTORS; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS;

EID: 84860264026     PISSN: 00099201     EISSN: 15325520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/GRF.0b013e3182516d7b     Document Type: Article

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