A retrospective comparison between lamicel and gemeprost for cervical ripening before surgical interruption of first-trimester pregnancy

Contraception

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 299-303

  Lindelius, Anna ^a   Varli, Ingela Hulthén ^a   Hammarström, Margareta ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM SÖDER HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Complications; Gemeprost; Lamicel; Legal abortion

Indexed keywords

GEMEPROST; LAMICEL;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABORTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ENDOMETRITIS; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INFECTION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SALPINGITIS; UTERINE CERVIX RIPENING; VACUUM ASPIRATION;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ADULT; ALPROSTADIL; CERVICAL RIPENING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFECTION; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; POLYVINYL ALCOHOL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PREMEDICATION; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SWEDEN; UTERINE PERFORATION;

EID: 0037383345     PISSN: 00107824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-7824(02)00538-3     Document Type: Article

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