Ectopic pregnancy

Danforth's Obstetrics and Gynecology: Tenth Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 71-87

  Seeber, Beata E ^a   Barnhart, Kurt T ^b,c  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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