embryo3.gif (13360 bytes) EARLY PREGNANCY:
Biology and Medicine

Editor-in-Chief: Eytan R. Barnea MD, FACOG


Volume I, Number 4
 ISSN: 1354-4195

CONTENTS

REVIEW
E. Jauniaux and C. Rodeck

Use, risks and complications of amniocentesis and chorionic villous sampling for prenatal diagnosis in early pregnancy

BIOETHICS
F. A. Chervenak and L. B. McCullough Ethical implications for early pregnancy of the fetus as patient: a basic ethical concept in fetal medicine
ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS
P. J. Hajenius, B. W. J. Mol, W. M. Ankum, F. van der Veen, P. M. M. Bossuyt and F. B. Lammes Suspected ectopic pregnancy: expectant management in patients with negative sonographic findings and low serum hCG concentrations
P. Bischof, M. Martelli, A. Campana, Y. Itoh, Y. Ogata and H. Nagase Importance of matrix metalloproteinases in human trophoblast invasion
B. M. Polliotti, C. Abramowsky, D. A. Schwartz, S. S. Keesling, G. R. Lee, J. Caba, W. Zhang, M. Panigel and A. J. Nahmias Culture of first-trimester and full-term human chorionic villus explants: role of human chorionic gonadotropin and human placental lactogen as a viability index
H. C. Liu, E. Pyrgiotis, O. Davis and Z. Rosenwaks Active corpus luteum function at pre-, peri- and postimplantation is essential for a viable pregnancy
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
J. Burstein and G. D. Braunstein Urine pregnancy tests from antiquity to the present
THREE MONTHS IN REVIEW
Bruno M. Polliotti
SECTION EDITOR
Current progress in early pregnancy investigation
SOCIETY NEWS
Eytan R. Barnea Forthcoming manuscripts
The Third World Confernece of the Society for the Investigation of Early Pregnancy 1996
Guidelines for Authors
Author(s) gurarantee form

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