Outcomes after total versus subtotal abdominal hysterectomy

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 347, Issue 17, 2002, Pages 1318-1325

  Thakar, Ranee ^a   Ayers, Susan ^b   Clarkson, Peter ^c   Stanton, Stuart ^a   Manyonda, Isaac ^a  

^a ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c MAYDAY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAXATIVE;

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ABDOMINAL MASS; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER CAPACITY; BLADDER FUNCTION; BLEEDING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DEFECATION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DYSMENORRHEA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINE FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENORRHAGIA; MICTURITION DISORDER; NOCTURIA; ORGASM; OVARY CYST; PELVIS; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SEXUALITY; STRESS INCONTINENCE; TISSUE INJURY; URINE RETENTION; UTERINE CERVIX DISEASE;

ADULT; DEFECATION; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URODYNAMICS; UTERINE DISEASES;

EID: 0037168030     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa013336     Document Type: Article

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