Experience of Thai women in Bangkok with Norplant-2® implants

Contraception

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 221-225

  Chompootaweep, S ^a   Kochagarn, E ^a   Tang Usaha, J ^a   Theppitaksak, B ^a   Dusitsin, N ^a  

^a CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Efficacy; Norplant 2 ; Subdermal implant; Thai women

Indexed keywords

LEVONORGESTREL;

ACNE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG IMPLANT; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HORMONAL CONTRACEPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRADERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; THAILAND;

ASIA; CONTRACEPTION; CONTRACEPTION CONTINUATION; CONTRACEPTION RESEARCH; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS, FEMALE--PHARMACODYNAMICS; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS, PROGESTIN--PHARMACODYNAMICS; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS--PHARMACODYNAMICS; CONTRACEPTIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONTRACEPTIVE IMPLANTS; CONTRACEPTIVE METHODS; CONTRACEPTIVE REMOVAL; CONTRACEPTIVE USAGE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FAMILY PLANNING; LEVONORGESTREL--PHARMACODYNAMICS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; RESEARCH REPORT; SOUTHEASTERN ASIA; STUDIES; THAILAND; TREATMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS, FEMALE; DRUG IMPLANTS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEVONORGESTREL; MENSTRUATION DISTURBANCES; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREGNANCY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; THAILAND;

EID: 0031701540     PISSN: 00107824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-7824(98)00101-2     Document Type: Article

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