Is medical management of menorrhagia obsolete?

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 105, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 569-572

  Duckitt, Kirsten ^a   Shaw, Robert W ^b  

^a ROYAL COLLEGE OF OBSTETRICIANS AND GYNAECOLOGISTS   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEVONORGESTREL; MEFENAMIC ACID; NORETHISTERONE; TRANEXAMIC ACID;

CLINICAL PRACTICE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; HYSTEROSCOPY; INTRAUTERINE DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL CARE; MENORRHAGIA; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; META ANALYSIS; NOTE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTEROSCOPY; LAPAROSCOPY; LEVONORGESTREL; MEFENAMIC ACID; MENORRHAGIA; MIDDLE AGED; NORETHINDRONE; PROGESTERONE CONGENERS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; TRANEXAMIC ACID;

EID: 0031776095     PISSN: 14700328     EISSN: 14710528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1998.tb10168.x     Document Type: Note

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