Management of abnormal genital bleeding in girls and women

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 324, Issue 24, 1991, Pages 1710-1715

  Cowan, Bryan D ^a   Morrison, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; GESTAGEN; HORMONE; PROSTAGLANDIN; PROSTAGLANDIN RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; TREATMENT; CONJUGATED ESTROGEN; GOSERELIN; LEUPRORELIN; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; NAFARELIN; NAFARELIN ACETATE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOLOGY; BLEEDING; BLOOD COAGULATION EFFECTS; BODY WEIGHT; CERVICAL LACERATION; CHILD; CONTRACEPTION; CONTRACEPTIVE METHODS; CURETTAGE; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DISEASES; ENDOCRINE EFFECTS; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTROGENIC SUBSTANCES, CONJUGATED; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; GENITAL SYSTEM; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HEMATOLOGICAL EFFECTS; HEMIC SYSTEM; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; HYSTERECTOMY; LITERATURE REVIEW; MENORRHAGIA; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; METRORRHAGIA; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; OBESITY; OBSTETRICAL SURGERY; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVES; PHYSICAL DISEASE BY BODY FUNCTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; REVIEW; SURGERY; THYROID EFFECTS; UNITED STATES; UROGENITAL SURGERY; UROGENITAL SYSTEM; UTERINE CERVIX; UTERUS; UTERUS BLEEDING; VAGINA; VAGINAL ABNORMALITIES; VAGINAL INJURY; VAGINITIS; VASCULAR DISEASE; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMERICAS; BIOLOGY; BLEEDING; BLOOD COAGULATION EFFECTS; BODY WEIGHT; CERVICAL LACERATION; CERVIX; CONTRACEPTION; CONTRACEPTIVE METHODS; CURETTAGE; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DISEASES; ENDOCRINE EFFECTS; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTROGENIC SUBSTANCES, CONJUGATED; ESTROGENS; FAMILY PLANNING; GENITALIA; GENITALIA, FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HEMATOLOGICAL EFFECTS; HEMIC SYSTEM; HEMOGLOBIN LEVEL; HORMONES; HYPOTENSION; HYSTERECTOMY; LITERATURE REVIEW; MENORRHAGIA; MENSTRUATION DISORDERS; METRORRHAGIA; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; OBESITY; OBSTETRICAL SURGERY; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVES; PHYSIOLOGY; PROGESTATIONAL HORMONES; PROSTAGLANDIN ANTAGONISTS; PROSTAGLANDINS; SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS; SURGERY; THYROID EFFECTS; TREATMENT; UNITED STATES; UROGENITAL SURGERY; UROGENITAL SYSTEM; UTERUS; VAGINA; VAGINAL ABNORMALITIES; VAGINAL INJURY; VAGINITIS; VASCULAR DISEASES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 0025910191     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199106133242406     Document Type: Review

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