Bedside Ultrasonography, First-Trimester Pregnancy: Multimedia

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Further Reading

Keywords

first-trimester vaginal bleeding, ectopic pregnancy, pelvic ultrasound, obstetric ultrasound, ultrasonography, Doppler, pelvic ultrasonography, obstetric ultrasonography, Morison pouch, Morison’s pouch, ruptured ectopic pregnancy, free fluid, gestational sac, yolk sac, fetal pole, transducer, endometrium, intrauterine pregnancy, IUP, cul-de-sac

Contributor Information and Disclosures

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Timothy Jang, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Director of Emergency Ultrasound, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Olive View-UCLA Medical Center; Clinical Faculty, Washington University School of Medicine
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Jennifer C Chen, MD, MPH, Staff Physician, Departments of Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles/Olive View Medical Center
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James Quan-Yu Hwang, MD, Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital; Clinical Instructor, Harvard Medical School
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