Metoclopramide pretreatment attenuates emergency contraceptive-associated nausea

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 188, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 330-333

  Ragan, Ronald E ^a   Rock, Randall W ^a   Buck, Henry W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency contraception; Estrogen progestin; Morning after pill; Nausea; Yuzpe method

Indexed keywords

ETHINYLESTRADIOL PLUS LEVONORGESTREL; METOCLOPRAMIDE; PLACEBO; POSTCOITUS CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST TENDERNESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTRACEPTION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE RESPONSE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DROWSINESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUSCLE CRAMP; NAUSEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; PRURITUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RHINORRHEA; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT PLANNING; VERTIGO; VOMITING;

EID: 0037325406     PISSN: 00029378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mob.2003.90     Document Type: Article

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