Evaluation of postmyomectomy uterine scar

Journal of Clinical Ultrasound

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 181-186

  Darwish, Atef M ^a   Nasr, Ahmed M ^a   El Nashar, Diaa A ^a  

^a ASSIUT UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Hematoma; Leiomyoma; Myomectomy; Postmyomectomy scar; Ultrasonography; Uterus

Indexed keywords

UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UTERUS SCAR;

ABDOMINAL MYOMECTOMY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INCISION; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LEIOMYOMA; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROSURGERY; MYOMECTOMY; OBSERVATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMATOMA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCAR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TOURNIQUET; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TUMOR VOLUME; UTERINE INCISION; UTERINE SCAR HEMATOMA; UTERUS; UTERUS MYOMA; UTERUS VOLUME; WOUND HEALING;

ADULT; CICATRIX; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; LEIOMYOMA; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 18144369258     PISSN: 00912751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcu.20106     Document Type: Article

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