Misoprostol for medical evacuation of early pregnancy failure

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 768-772

  Creinin, Mitchell D ^a   Moyer, Robert ^a   Guido, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MISOPROSTOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CURETTAGE; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDUCED ABORTION; INTRAVAGINAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; UTERINE CERVIX DILATATION; VOMITING;

ABORTIFACIENT AGENTS, NONSTEROIDAL; ABORTION, MISSED; ADMINISTRATION, INTRAVAGINAL; ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MISOPROSTOL; PILOT PROJECTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VOMITING;

EID: 0030899219     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: 1873233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-7844(97)81438-X     Document Type: Article

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