Complications associated with global endometrial ablation: The utility of the MAUDE database

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1278-1282

  Gurtcheff, Shawn E ^a   Sharp, Howard T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BELOW KNEE AMPUTATION; BLEEDING; BURN; CAUSE OF DEATH; CYSTITIS; DATA BASE; DEVICE; ENDOMETRITIS; ENDOMETRIUM ABLATION; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HEMATOMETRA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTESTINE INJURY; LAPAROTOMY; MEDLINE; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STOMA; THERMAL INJURY; UTERUS PERFORATION; VAGINITIS; VULVECTOMY;

EID: 0345549594     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obstetgynecol.2003.07.007     Document Type: Article

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