Cesarean scar pregnancies: Experience of 60 cases

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 601-610

  Timor Tritsch, Ilan E ^a   Khatib, Nizar ^a   Monteagudo, Ana ^a   Ramos, Joanne ^a   Berg, Robert ^a   Kovács, Sándor ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cesarean delivery; Cesarean scar; Cesarean scar pregnancy; Obstetric ultrasound

Indexed keywords

GYNECOLOGY; OBSTETRICS; PATIENT REHABILITATION;

ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; CARDIAC ACTIVITY; CESAREAN DELIVERY; CESAREAN SCAR; CESAREAN SCAR PREGNANCY; EXPECTANT MANAGEMENT; FIRST TRIMESTERS; UTERINE ARTERY EMBOLIZATION;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

ADULT; CESAREAN SECTION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCAR;

ADULT; CESAREAN SECTION; CICATRIX; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 84925362064     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: 15509613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/ultra.34.4.601     Document Type: Article

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