Second-generation treatment: microwave

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 969-977

  Sambrook, Alison ^b   Cooper, Kevin G ^a  

^a ABERDEEN ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

MEA; menorrhagia; microwave endometrial ablation

Indexed keywords

FELYPRESSIN; FENTANYL; GONADORELIN DERIVATIVE; LEVONORGESTREL; MIDAZOLAM; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PRILOCAINE;

CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DYSMENORRHEA; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENDOMETRIUM ABLATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; HYSTEROSCOPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MENORRHAGIA; META ANALYSIS; MICROWAVE THERAPY; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; ENDOMETRIUM; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENORRHAGIA; MICROWAVES; MIDDLE AGED; SHORT-WAVE THERAPY;

EID: 36549045495     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2007.03.016     Document Type: Review

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