Bleeding problems and treatment

Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 928-939

  March, Charles M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WOMEN S AND CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBENZOIC ACID; AMINOCAPROIC ACID; CONJUGATED ESTROGEN; DANAZOL; ESTROGEN; GESTAGEN; GONADORELIN AGONIST; IBUPROFEN; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; MEFENAMIC ACID; NAPROXEN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; TRANEXAMIC ACID;

CURETTAGE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; ENDOMETRIUM ABLATION; ENDOMETRIUM HYPERPLASIA; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; MENSTRUATION; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; UTERUS BLEEDING;

CLIMACTERIC; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DILATATION AND CURETTAGE; ESTROGEN ANTAGONISTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTEROSCOPY; LASER SURGERY; MENSTRUATION DISTURBANCES;

EID: 0032453696     PISSN: 00099201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003081-199812000-00019     Document Type: Review

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