Reliability, feasibility, and safety of minihysteroscopy with a vaginoscopic approach: Experience with 6,000 cases

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 199-202

  Cicinelli, Ettore ^a   Parisi, Carlo ^a   Galantino, Pietro ^a   Pinto, Vincenzo ^a   Barba, Bruno ^a   Schonauer, Sergio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYSTEROSCOPE; HYSTEROSCOPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINIHYSTEROSCOPY; OUTPATIENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SURGICAL RISK; UTERUS; VAGUS REFLEX;

EID: 0037707292     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(03)00546-6     Document Type: Article

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