Treatment of uterine fibroids for abnormal uterine bleeding: myomectomy and uterine artery embolization

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 995-1005

  Al Mahrizi, Sharifa ^a   Tulandi, Togas ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

abnormal uterine bleeding; leiomyoma; menorrhagia; myoma; myomectomy; uterine artery embolization; uterine fibroid embolization; uterine fibroids

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN AGONIST; LONG ACTING DRUG;

ANALGESIA; CLIMACTERIUM; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM ABLATION; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; HYSTEROSCOPY; INFECTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LEIOMYOMA; LONG TERM CARE; MENOPAUSE; MENORRHAGIA; MYOMECTOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PREGNANCY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURING METHOD; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; UTERINE ARTERY EMBOLIZATION; UTERUS CAVITY; UTERUS MYOMA;

EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTEROSCOPY; LEIOMYOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE; UTERINE NEOPLASMS; UTERUS;

EID: 36549051546     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2007.03.017     Document Type: Review

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