Health technology assessment of surgical therapies for benign gynaecological disease

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 841-879

  Owusu Ansah, Richard ^b   Gatongi, David ^b   Chien, Patrick F W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

endometrial ablation; endometriosis; hysterectomy; laparoscopy; menorrhagia; ovarian cysts; surgery

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ADNEXA DISEASE; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; MENORRHAGIA; METRORRHAGIA; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVARY TUMOR; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; REOPERATION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCAR FORMATION; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TECHNOLOGY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT INDICATION; UTERUS MYOMA; VAGINAL HYSTERECTOMY; VAPORIZATION;

ADNEXAL DISEASES; CATHETER ABLATION; ENDOMETRIOSIS; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; HYSTERECTOMY, VAGINAL; HYSTEROSCOPY; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; MENORRHAGIA; OVARIAN CYSTS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 37849186568     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2006.11.006     Document Type: Review

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