Suppression of pelvic pain during hysteroscopy with a transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation device

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1422-1427

  De Angelis, Carlo ^a   Perrone, Giuseppina ^a   Santoro, Giuseppina ^a   Nofroni, Italo ^a   Zichella, Lucio ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Office hysteroscopy; Pain relief; Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; HYSTEROSCOPY; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 0037497950     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(03)00363-7     Document Type: Article

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