A comparison of medical management with misoprostol and surgical management for early pregnancy failure

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 353, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 761-769

  Zhang, Jun ^a   Gilles, Jerry M ^b   Barnhart, Kurt ^c   Creinin, Mitchell D ^d   Westhoff, Carolyn ^e   Frederick, Margaret M ^f  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^e Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^f Clinical Trials & Surveys Corp   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MISOPROSTOL; ABORTIVE AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABNORMALLY LOW SUBSTRATE CONCENTRATION IN BLOOD; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; BLEEDING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; ENDOMETRITIS; FEMALE; FEVER; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NAUSEA; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT FAILURE; VOMITING; CURETTAGE; FETUS DEATH; MULTICENTER STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION;

ABORTIFACIENT AGENTS, NONSTEROIDAL; ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ADULT; ENDOMETRITIS; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MISOPROSTOL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; VACUUM CURETTAGE;

EID: 23944478412     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa044064     Document Type: Article

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