A randomized study comparing endometrial cryoablation and rollerball electroablation for treatment of dysfunctional uterine bleeding

Journal of the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 17-26

  Duleba, Antoni J ^a   Heppard, Martha C ^a   Soderstrom, Richard M ^a   Townsend, Duane E ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ADULT; AMENORRHEA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOSURGERY; DYSMENORRHEA; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOMETRIAL CRYOABLATION; ENDOMETRIUM ABLATION; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENORRHAGIA; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENSTRUATION; METRORRHAGIA; MOOD DISORDER; MULTICENTER STUDY; OLIGOMENORRHEA; PAIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; ROLLERBALL ELECTROABLATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SPOTTING; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERUS BLEEDING; ELECTROCOAGULATION; ENDOMETRIUM; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; HYSTEROSCOPY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; CRYOSURGERY; ELECTROCOAGULATION; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYSTEROSCOPY; MENORRHAGIA; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 0012394463     PISSN: 10743804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1074-3804(05)60229-0     Document Type: Article

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