Five years' experience with a small intracervical/intrauterine levonorgestrel-releasing device

Contraception

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 342-345

  Pakarinen, Päivi ^a,b,c   Luukkainen, Tapani ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Contraception; Intracervical device; Levonorgestrel releasing intrauterine device

Indexed keywords

LEVONORGESTREL;

ADULT; AMENORRHEA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTRACEPTION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE; NORMAL HUMAN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UTERUS CAVITY; UTERUS CONTRACTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS, FEMALE; DEVICE REMOVAL; ENDOMETRIUM; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTRAUTERINE DEVICE EXPULSION; INTRAUTERINE DEVICES, MEDICATED; LEVONORGESTREL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 27144523748     PISSN: 00107824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.contraception.2005.05.013     Document Type: Article

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