New interventional techniques for adenomyosis

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 617-636

  Rabinovici, Jaron ^a   Stewart, Elizabeth A ^b  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

adenomyosis; focused ultrasound surgery; intrauterine device; uterine artery embolization

Indexed keywords

ANTIESTROGEN; DANAZOL; GESTAGEN; GONADORELIN AGONIST; GONADORELIN DERIVATIVE; LEVONORGESTREL; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ADENOMYOSIS; BONE DEMINERALIZATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ENDOMETRIUM ABLATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONAL THERAPY; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; HYSTEROSALPINGOGRAPHY; INTRAUTERINE CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE; MOOD CHANGE; MYOMECTOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVARY INSUFFICIENCY; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIDE EFFECT; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE ARTERY EMBOLIZATION; UTERUS BIOPSY; UTERUS MYOMA; UTERUS SURGERY; VAGINA DISCHARGE; VAGINAL DRYNESS;

ADULT; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL, SYNTHETIC; DANAZOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ESTROGEN ANTAGONISTS; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INTRAUTERINE DEVICES, MEDICATED; LEVONORGESTREL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENORRHAGIA; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; UTERINE DISEASES; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33750628252     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2006.02.002     Document Type: Review

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