A simplified protocol for pessary management

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 990-994

  Wu, Vincent ^a   Farrell, Scott A ^a   Baskett, Thomas F ^a   Flowerdew, Gordon ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTOCELE; FEMALE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; LIFE TABLE; LITHOTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; PERINEUM; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTOCELE; STRESS INCONTINENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERUS PROLAPSE; VAGINA PESSARY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE TABLES; MIDDLE AGED; PESSARIES; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE PROLAPSE;

EID: 0030664382     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-7844(97)00481-X     Document Type: Article

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