Ectopic Pregnancy - Diagnosis and Management

Klappentext This concise yet immensely practical handbook provides the busy clinician with a self-contained account of the diagnosis and management of ectopic pregnancy. Such pregnancies! which develop outside the normal confines of the uterine cavity! are a relatively common occurrence and there is some evidence their incidence is increasing. Zusammenfassung This concise yet immensely practical handbook provides the busy clinician with a self-contained account of the diagnosis and management of ectopic pregnancy. The text is fully supported by numerous and helpful ultrasound images! line diagrams illustrating surgical techniques! and by highlighted summaries of key facts and decision trees. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Incidence, aetiology and pathophysiology of ectopic pregnancy; 2. Clinical presentation of ectopic pregnancy; 3. Biochemical diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy; 4. Sonographic diagnosis; 5. Surgical diagnosis; 6. Practical management of suspected ectopic pregnancy; 7. Extratubal and unusual ectopic pregnancies; 8. Medical treatment of ectopic pregnancy; 9. Conservative surgery; 10. Radical surgery; 11. Future aspects; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Isabel Stabile, Isabel (Florida State University) Stabile
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.01.1996
• EAN: 9780521496124
• ISBN: 978-0-521-49612-4
• No. of pages: 172
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; MEDICAL / Gynecology & Obstetrics, Materno-fetal medicine, Materno-foetal medicine / perinatology