Uterine artery embolisation for symptomatic fibroids: Clinical results in 400 women with imaging follow up

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 109, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1262-1272

  Walker, W J ^a   Pelage, J P ^a  

^a ROYAL SURREY COUNTY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; PLATINUM; POLYVINYL ALCOHOL;

ABDOMINAL SWELLING; ADULT; AMENORRHEA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSMENORRHEA; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; IMAGING; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENORRHAGIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME; UNITED KINGDOM; UTERINE ARTERY EMBOLIZATION; UTERUS MYOMA; VAGINA DISCHARGE;

ADULT; AGED; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEIOMYOMA; LENGTH OF STAY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; TREATMENT FAILURE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0036877017     PISSN: 14700328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-0528.2002.01449.x     Document Type: Article

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