Abortion, Septic: Differential Diagnoses & Workup

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Further Reading

Keywords

septic abortion, miscarriage, spontaneous abortion, therapeutic abortion, artificial abortion, pelvic infection, pelvic inflammatory disease, PID

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Slava V Gaufberg, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Director of Transitional Residency Training Program, Cambridge Health Alliance
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