Management of Nonpregnant Women with Elevated Human Chorionic Gonadotropin
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Management of Nonpregnant Women with Elevated Human Chorionic Gonadotropin
Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) is useful in evaluating and monitoring early pregnancy as well as trophoblastic disease. Here we describe the management of women with elevated serum human chorionic gonadotropin in a case of a 51-year-old female who was unsuccessfully treated for ectopic pregnancy. She was subsequently diagnosed with pituitary hCG production, which should be considered as dif...
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عنوان ژورنال: Case Reports in Obstetrics and Gynecology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2090-6684,2090-6692
DOI: 10.1155/2013/580709