Medical management of ectopic pregnancy

Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 424-432

  Lipscomb, Gary H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ectopic pregnancy; medical therapy; methotrexate

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; GONADOTROPIN; IBUPROFEN; LIVER ENZYME; METHOTREXATE; PROGESTERONE; RHESUS ANTIGEN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BODY WEIGHT; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; GONADOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMATOMA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FUNCTION; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG FIBROSIS; OUTPATIENT; PNEUMONIA; PREDICTION; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SIDE EFFECT; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; STOMACH ULCER; STOMATITIS;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABORTIFACIENT AGENTS, NONSTEROIDAL; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; METHOTREXATE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ECTOPIC;

EID: 84860285105     PISSN: 00099201     EISSN: 15325520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/GRF.0b013e3182510a48     Document Type: Article

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