ON THE VALUE OF SERUM-PLACENTAL PROTEIN-1 4 MEASUREMENT FOR THE DIFFERENTIAL-DIAGNOSIS OF ABNORMAL EARLY-PREGNANCY

Single measurements of hCG and placental protein 14 were carried out i n 32 patients with tubal pregnancies, in 38 patients with spontaneous abortion and 28 women with normal intrauterine pregnancies from the 5t h to the 7th week of pregnancy. HCG-measurement could only show signif icant differences between normal and abnormal early pregnancies. PP 14 -measurements showed significant differences between all groups. Low c oncentrations of serum PP 14 point to an ectopic pregnancy.