Successful myomectomy during pregnancy: A case report

Reproductive Health

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2005, Pages

  Umezurike, Chisara ^a   Feyi Waboso, Paul ^b  

^a Nigerian Christian Hospital   (Nigeria)

^b ABIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNESIUM SULFATE;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL PRESSURE; ABDOMINAL SWELLING; ADULT; AMENORRHEA; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; MYOMECTOMY; OVARY TUMOR; PREGNANCY; SAFETY; TIME; TUMOR VOLUME; UTERUS CONTRACTION; UTERUS MYOMA; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

EID: 24144456515     PISSN: 17424755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-4755-2-6     Document Type: Article

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