New surgical treatments for menorrhagia

Lancet

Volumn 361, Issue 9367, 2003, Pages 1456-1458

  Sowter, Martin C ^a  

^a NATIONAL WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEVONORGESTREL; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENT;

BALLOON; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEVICE; DISPOSABLE EQUIPMENT; ENDOMETRIUM ABLATION; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAUTERINE CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE; LASER SURGERY; MENORRHAGIA; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SHORT SURVEY; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CATHETER ABLATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; METHODOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW;

CATHETER ABLATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENORRHAGIA; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS;

EID: 0037467505     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(03)13140-6     Document Type: Short Survey

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