Ectopic pregnancy deaths: What should we be doing?

Hospital Medicine

Volumn 65, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 657-660

  Kirk, Emma ^a   Condous, George ^a   Bourne, Tom ^a  

^a ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHOTREXATE; RHESUS D ANTIBODY;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; CHEMICAL TERATOGENESIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DRUG INFORMATION; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SALPINGECTOMY; SCREENING TEST; SIDE EFFECT; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY;

EID: 9344256027     PISSN: 14623935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12968/hosp.2004.65.11.17044     Document Type: Review

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