Missed contraceptive pills and the critical pill-free interval

Lancet

Volumn 365, Issue 9472, 2005, Pages 1670-1671

  Mansour, Diana ^a   Fraser, Ian S ^b  

^a Newcastle Primary Care Trust   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHINYLESTRADIOL; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; STEROID;

CONTRACEPTION; FAMILY PLANNING; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NOTE; OVULATION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 19344371637     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(05)66527-0     Document Type: Note

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