The use of transvaginal ultrasound following voluntary interruption of pregnancy to reduce complications due to incomplete curettage;L'ecografia transvaginale dopo svuotamento cavitario durante il I trimestre di gestazione e riduzione delle complicanze da incompleta revisione cavitaria strumentale

Minerva Ginecologica

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 7-13

  Caserta, L ^a,c   Labriola, D ^b   Torella, M ^b   Di Caterina, B ^b  

^a Unità Operativa di Ostetricia e Ginecologia   (Italy)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^c Ospedale Civile di Gorizia   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gestational age; Postoperative complications; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CURETTAGE; ENDOMETRITIS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATIONAL AGE; GYNECOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; UTERUS PERFORATION; VAGINA BLEEDING;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ADULT; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DILATATION AND CURETTAGE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE; UTERUS;

EID: 42049123679     PISSN: 00264784     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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