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Urine Pregnancy Test: Interesting Bio-social Cases

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In Laboratory medicine, urine pregnancy test is an easily available diagnostic test in the present day. Urine pregnancy is a monitoring of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), which is secreted by the trophoblastic cells of the placenta. The most common indication for urine pregnancy test is secondary amenorrhea. The social impact of urine pregnancy test result is of concern. Since the result can be legal aspect and relate to the family folder, the test is considered an important test in laboratory medicine. Here, the author presented three interesting case reports of urine pregnancy test in bio-social aspect.

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  1. Department of Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 10330, Thailand

    Viroj Wiwanitkit

  2. Division of Laboratory Medicine, King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand

    Viroj Wiwanitkit

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Wiwanitkit, V. Urine Pregnancy Test: Interesting Bio-social Cases. Sex Disabil 24, 117–119 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11195-006-9010-z

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