Fertility and Sterility
Volume 96, Issue 1 , Pages 79-83 , July 2011

An alternative treatment option in tubal ectopic pregnancies with fetal heartbeat: aspiration of the embryo followed by single-dose methotrexate administration

Received 10 October 2010 ,Revised 19 January 2011 ,Accepted 18 February 2011.

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 İ.Ç. has nothing to disclose. O.G. has nothing to disclose. P.Ö. has nothing to disclose. R.S. has nothing to disclose. H.G. has nothing to disclose. M.İ. has nothing to disclose.

PII: S0015-0282(11)00691-1

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2011.02.058

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 96, Issue 1 , Pages 79-83 , July 2011

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