Myomectomy fever: Testing the dogma

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 104-108

  Waldman, Lisa ^a   Evantash, Edward G ^a   Aronson, Michael P ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal myomectomy; Postoperative complications; Postoperative fever

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYOMECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FEVER; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; INCIDENCE; LEIOMYOMA; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0033169105     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(99)00156-9     Document Type: Article

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