Complications attributed to illicit abortions

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 42-45

  Najmi, Rakhshan Shaheen ^a  

^a FATIMA JINNAH MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILLEGAL ABORTION; INCIDENCE; INDUCED ABORTION; INJURY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PAKISTAN; PARITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; STATISTICS; UTERUS; UTERUS BLEEDING;

ABORTION, CRIMINAL; ABORTION, INDUCED; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MIDDLE AGED; PAKISTAN; PARITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE; UTERUS;

EID: 0031991764     PISSN: 00309982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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