Feasibility and Safety of Vaginal Myomectomy: A Prospective Pilot Study

Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 166-171

  Plotti, Giovanni ^a   Plotti, Francesco ^b   Di Giovanni, Alessandra ^a   Battaglia, Francesco ^a   Nagar, Giuseppe ^a  

^a SAN FILIPPO NERI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLPOTOMY; CONCEPTION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; MYOMA; MYOMECTOMY; OPERATION DURATION; PERIOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; VAGINAL MYOMECTOMY;

ADULT; COLPOTOMY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; LEIOMYOMA; LENGTH OF STAY; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 39749083562     PISSN: 15534650     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmig.2007.09.010     Document Type: Article

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