Controversies and challenges in the modern management of uterine fibroids

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 95-102

  Manyonda, Isaac ^a   Sinthamoney, Eeson ^a   Belli, Anna Maria ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC HORMONE AGONISTS AND ANTAGONISTS; DRUG DERIVATIVE; GONADORELIN;

ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; COST OF ILLNESS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INFERTILITY; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; LEIOMYOMA; METHODOLOGY; MYOMECTOMY; MYOMETRIUM; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE ARTERY EMBOLIZATION; UTERUS; UTERUS CANCER; UTERUS MYOMA; UTERUS TUMOR; VAGINA; VASCULARIZATION;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, HORMONAL; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; LAPAROTOMY; LEIOMYOMA; MYOMETRIUM; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, NEOPLASTIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE NEOPLASMS; UTERUS; VAGINA;

EID: 0442307691     PISSN: 14700328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-0528.2003.00002.x     Document Type: Review

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