Fertility and Sterility
Volume 91, Issue 3 , Pages 671-674 , March 2009

Conservative management of cervical ectopic pregnancy

  • Usha Verma, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Usha Verma, M.D., Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (D-50), Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, P.O. Box 016960, Miami, FL 33101 (FAX: 305-325-1469).
    • ,
  • Nima Goharkhay, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas

Received 3 October 2007 ,Revised 6 December 2007 ,Accepted 19 December 2007.

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 U.V. is on the speaker's bureau for Wyeth. N.G. has nothing to disclose.

PII: S0015-0282(07)04334-8

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.12.054

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 91, Issue 3 , Pages 671-674 , March 2009

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