A randomized comparison of sublingual and vaginal misoprostol for cervical priming before suction termination of first-trimester pregnancy

Contraception

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 117-120

  Vimala, N ^a   Mittal, S ^a   Kumar, S ^a   Dadhwal, V ^a   Sharma, Y ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

First trimester pregnancy termination; Preabortion cervical priming; Sublingual misoprostol

Indexed keywords

MISOPROSTOL;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABORTION; ADULT; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CANNULA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM FUNCTION DISORDER; FEMALE; FEVER; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATION PERIOD; HUMAN; MACHINE; NAUSEA; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHIVERING; SUCTION; UTERINE CERVIX DILATATION; UTERUS PERFORATION; VAGINA BLEEDING; VOMITING;

ABORTIFACIENT AGENTS, NONSTEROIDAL; ABORTION, INDUCED; ADMINISTRATION, INTRAVAGINAL; ADMINISTRATION, SUBLINGUAL; ADULT; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; LABOR STAGE, FIRST; MISOPROSTOL; PREGNANCY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SUCTION; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 3343019322     PISSN: 00107824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.contraception.2004.02.017     Document Type: Article

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