Preliminary report of treatment with oral contraceptive pills for intermenstrual vaginal bleeding secondary to a cesarean section scar

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 477-479

  Tahara, Masahiro ^a   Shimizu, Takashi ^b   Shimoura, Hisayoshi ^c,d  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Shimizu Women's Clinic   (Japan)

^c Shimoura Women's Clinic   (Japan)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHINYLESTRADIOL PLUS NORGESTREL; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; PRANOVAL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAKTHROUGH BLEEDING; BREAST TENDERNESS; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEMALE; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HYSTEROSCOPY; NAUSEA; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SCAR; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; VAGINA BLEEDING; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ADULT; CESAREAN SECTION; CICATRIX; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL, SYNTHETIC; DRUG COMBINATIONS; ESTROGENS; ETHINYL ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; NORGESTREL; PATIENT SATISFACTION; TABLETS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 33746577927     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2006.01.020     Document Type: Article

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