Assessment of new technology in the treatment of idiopathic menorrhagia and uterine leiomyomata

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 990-1003

  Sharp, Howard T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; GONADORELIN AGONIST; NARCOTIC AGENT; SEDATIVE AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ARTERY OCCLUSION; BACTEREMIA; BLEEDING; BURN; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CRYOSURGERY; CRYOTHERAPY; DEVICE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROSURGERY; ENDOMETRITIS; ENDOMETRIUM ABLATION; FEVER; GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; HEMATOMETRA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INFECTION COMPLICATION; INTESTINE INJURY; LAPAROSCOPY; LEIOMYOMA; LENGTH OF STAY; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MENORRHAGIA; MICROWAVE IRRADIATION; MORTALITY; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PLACENTA ACCRETA; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RANDOMIZATION; REOPERATION; REVIEW; SCAR; SYMPTOM; THERMAL INJURY; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETER INJURY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; UTERINE ARTERY; UTERINE ARTERY EMBOLIZATION; UTERINE CERVIX; UTERUS; UTERUS MYOMA; UTERUS PERFORATION; UTERUS SARCOMA; VAGINA DISEASE; VAGINITIS;

BALLOON DILATATION; CATHETER ABLATION; CRYOSURGERY; ELECTROCOAGULATION; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LEIOMYOMA; MENORRHAGIA; MICROWAVES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; UTERINE NEOPLASMS; UTERUS;

EID: 33749324437     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AOG.0000232618.26261.75     Document Type: Review

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