Pyometra after thermal endometrial ablation

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 110, Issue 2 II, 2007, Pages 538-540

  Schlumbrecht, Matthew ^a,b   Balgobin, Sunil ^a   Word, Larry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ENDOCARDITIS; ENDOMETRIUM ABLATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; MITRAL VALVE PROSTHESIS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYOMETRA; THROMBOSIS; UTERUS BLEEDING; UTERUS DISEASE; CATHETER ABLATION; ENDOMETRIUM; HEAT; MENORRHAGIA; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION;

CATHETER ABLATION; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HEAT; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; MENORRHAGIA; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; UTERINE DISEASES;

EID: 34548450243     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AOG.0000271213.60872.be     Document Type: Article

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