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Case Reports in Obstetrics and Gynecology
Volume 2015, Article ID 959876, 3 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/959876
Case Report

Conservative Management of Cesarean Scar Ectopic Pregnancy with Fetal Heart Activity and a Very High β-hCG

Rodney McLaren,1 Sandra McCalla,1 and Mohamad Irani2

1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY 11219, USA
2Ronald O. Perelman and Claudia Cohen Center for Reproductive Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY 10021, USA

Received 4 November 2015; Accepted 22 November 2015

Academic Editor: Yoav Peled

Copyright © 2015 Rodney McLaren et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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