Transvaginal sonographic evaluation of subendometrial-myometrial contractility in women using a copper-releasing intrauterine device

Contraception

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 444-446

  Salamanca, Alberto ^a,b   Carrillo, María Paz ^a   Beltrán, Estanislao ^b,c   Clavero, Pedro A ^c  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LAS NIEVES   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO SAN CECILIO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Copper releasing intrauterine device; Subendometrial myometrial contractility

Indexed keywords

COPPER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRAUTERINE CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERISTALSIS; SPERMATOZOON MIGRATION; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; UTERUS CONTRACTILITY;

COPPER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAUTERINE DEVICES, COPPER; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENSTRUATION; MYOMETRIUM; UTERINE CONTRACTION;

EID: 43049172132     PISSN: 00107824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.contraception.2008.01.010     Document Type: Article

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