Ectopic pregnancy: How the diagnostic and therapeutic management has changed

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1066-1073

  Van Mello, Norah M ^a   Mol, Femke ^a   Ankum, Willem M ^a   Mol, Ben Willem ^a   Van Der Veen, Fulco ^a   Hajenius, Petra J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; ectopic pregnancy; review; treatment

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; FOLINATE CALCIUM; METHOTREXATE; PROGESTERONE;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW DEPRESSION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CONSENSUS; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; ENTERITIS; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLOW UP; GASTRITIS; GESTATIONAL SAC; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PATIENT SAFETY; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SALPINGECTOMY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; STOMATITIS; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TROPHOBLAST; VAGINA BLEEDING;

EID: 84867731357     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2012.09.040     Document Type: Review

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