Pregnancy termination: Techniques, risks, and complications and their management

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1986, Pages 5-17

  Castadot, R G ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE DERIVATIVE; AMPICILLIN; ARBAPROSTIL; BUPIVACAINE; CARBOPROST; CEFALOTIN; CHLOROPROCAINE; DIAZEPAM; DOXYCYCLINE; ERGOMETRINE; GEMEPROST; METENEPROST; METHYLERGOMETRINE; MIFEPRISTONE; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; OXYTOCIN; PETHIDINE; PROSTAGLANDIN DERIVATIVE; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; PROSTAGLANDIN F2 ALPHA; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SULPROSTONE; UREA;

ABORTION; ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; COMPLICATION; CURETTAGE; DURATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK; SUCTION DELIVERY; UTERINE CERVIX DILATATION; UTERUS BLEEDING; UTERUS PERFORATION;

EID: 0022638550     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0015-0282(16)49089-8     Document Type: Review

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