Early pregnancy failure: Beware of the pitfalls of modern management

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1061-1065

  Barnhart, Kurt T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Early pregnancy failure; ectopic pregnancy; methotrexate; miscarriage

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; LIVER ENZYME; METHOTREXATE;

ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ECHOGRAPHY; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FETAL WELL BEING; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; FOLLOW UP; GESTATIONAL AGE; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HUMAN; HYPERTELORISM; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MORBIDITY; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCOLIOSIS; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; SURGICAL APPROACH; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; UTERUS; VAGINA BLEEDING; VAGINA PAIN;

ABORTIFACIENT AGENTS, NONSTEROIDAL; ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ABORTION, THERAPEUTIC; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; METHOTREXATE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY, ECTOPIC; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES;

EID: 84867734510     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2012.09.018     Document Type: Article

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