Use of ultrasonography to guide first-trimester pregnancy terminations obviates the need for sharp curettage [1]

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1131-1132

  Fait, Gideon ^a,b   Amster, Reuven ^a   Tugendreich, Daniel ^a   Dreval, David ^a   David, Amnon ^a   Wolman, Igal ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b LIS MATERNITY HOSPITAL   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHYLERGOMETRINE; OXYTOCIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CURETTAGE; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; LETTER; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; UTERUS BLEEDING; UTERUS SYNECHIA; VAGINA BLEEDING;

EID: 0036843260     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(02)04209-7     Document Type: Article

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