Outpatient cervical ripening before first-trimester surgical abortion: A comparison between misoprostol and isosorbide mononitrate

Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 344-348

  Radulovic, Nina ^a   Norström, Anders ^a   Ekerhovd, Erling ^a  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cervical ripening; Isosorbide mononitrate; Misoprostol; Surgical abortion

Indexed keywords

ISOSORBIDE MONONITRATE; MISOPROSTOL;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABORTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEART PALPITATION; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NAUSEA; NULLIPARA; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SUCTION; TONOMETER; UTERINE CERVIX DILATATION; UTERINE CERVIX RIPENING; VAGINA BLEEDING; VOMITING;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABORTIFACIENT AGENTS, NONSTEROIDAL; ABORTION, INDUCED; ADMINISTRATION, INTRAVAGINAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; CERVICAL RIPENING; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE; MISOPROSTOL; NAUSEA; NITRIC OXIDE DONORS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF ADMINISTRATION; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 33846945797     PISSN: 00016349     EISSN: 16000412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00016340601134598     Document Type: Article

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