Microwave endometrial ablation: Does endometrial thickness or the medium for preoperative hysteroscopy affect the depth of ablation?

Gynaecological Endoscopy

Volumn 11, Issue 2-3, 2002, Pages 107-110

  Wallage, Sarah ^a   Cooper, Kevin G ^a   Miller, Ian ^a  

^a ABERDEEN ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Endometrial ablation; Hysteroscopy; Menorrhagia; Microwave

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; NITROBLUE TETRAZOLIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM; ENDOMETRIUM ABLATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; HYSTEROSCOPY; METRORRHAGIA; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PREMENOPAUSE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAINING; THICKNESS; TISSUE NECROSIS; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVIX DILATATION;

EID: 0036455104     PISSN: 09621091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2508.2002.00514.x     Document Type: Article

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