Emergency contraception: A "fire extinguisher" for unintended pregnancies

Primary Care Update for Ob/Gyns

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 284-287

  Farrar, Susan C ^a   Yenari, Jon ^b   Gherman, Robert B ^b  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER PORTSMOUTH   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONJUGATED ESTROGEN; COPPER INTRAUTERINE DEVICE; DANAZOL; DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; ESTROGEN; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; GESTAGEN; HORMONE; LEVONORGESTREL; MIFEPRISTONE; NON PRESCRIPTION DRUG; NORGESTREL; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; POSTCOITUS CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; PROGESTERONE;

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BREAST TENDERNESS; CONTRACEPTION; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; ENDOMETRIUM; EXPERIENCE; FERTILIZATION; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEADACHE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH PROGRAM; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INDUCED ABORTION; MARKETING; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; MOOD DISORDER; NAUSEA; ORGANIZATION; OVULATION; PATIENT EDUCATION; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PHYSICIAN; PILL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; TERATOGENESIS; THROMBOEMBOLISM; UNITED STATES; VAGINA BLEEDING; VERTIGO; VOMITING; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0242496276     PISSN: 1068607X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1068-607X(03)00069-6     Document Type: Article

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