Indications for Hysterectomy

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 328, Issue 12, 1993, Pages 856-860

  Desforges, Jane F ^a   Carlson, Karen J ^b   Nichols, David H ^b   Schiff, Isaac ^b  

^a Harvard Medical School ^*

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOMYOSIS; CANCER PREVENTION; ENDOMETRIOSIS; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA IN SITU; UTERUS BLEEDING; UTERUS CARCINOMA; UTERUS MYOMA; UTERUS PROLAPSE;

FEMALE; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; LEIOMYOMA; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0027410238     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199303253281207     Document Type: Review

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