The use of vaginal misoprostol for second-trimester pregnancy termination in women with previous single cesarean section

Contraception

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 324-327

  Daponte, Alexandros ^a   Nzewenga, Guy ^b   Dimopoulos, Konstantinos D ^a   Guidozzi, Franco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF LARISSA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Cesarean section; Misoprostol; Second trimester pregnancy termination

Indexed keywords

MISOPROSTOL;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; UTERUS RUPTURE; VAGINA BLEEDING;

ABORTIFACIENT AGENTS, NONSTEROIDAL; ABORTION, INDUCED; ADMINISTRATION, INTRAVAGINAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CESAREAN SECTION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GRAVIDITY; HUMANS; MISOPROSTOL; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33748546275     PISSN: 00107824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.contraception.2006.03.023     Document Type: Article

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