Dysfunctional uterine bleeding

Western Journal of Medicine

Volumn 169, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 280-284

  Chen, Bertha H ^a,b   Giudice, Linda C ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; DANAZOL; GESTAGEN; GONADORELIN AGONIST; LEVONORGESTREL; MEFENAMIC ACID; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; NORETHISTERONE; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; PROSTACYCLIN; PROSTAGLANDIN; PROSTANOID; THROMBOXANE;

ARTICLE; BALLOON; CLINICAL TRIAL; ENDOMETRIUM ABLATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; METRORRHAGIA; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; SIDE EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERUS BLEEDING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ANTIFIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL; DANAZOL; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTROGEN ANTAGONISTS; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; MENORRHAGIA; MIDDLE AGED; OVULATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROGESTINS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031798454     PISSN: 00930415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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