Endoscopic management of uterine fibroids

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 707-716

  Agdi, Mohammed ^a   Tulandi, Togas ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

hysteroscopy; laparoscopy; leiomyoma; myolysis; myoma; uterine artery embolization; uterine artery ligation; uterine fibroid

Indexed keywords

FUROSEMIDE; GONADORELIN AGONIST; MISOPROSTOL; VASOPRESSIN;

ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ARTERY LIGATION; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; ENDOMETRIUM POLYP; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE FERTILITY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART INFARCTION; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; INCISION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LUNG EDEMA; MYOMECTOMY; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREMATURE LABOR; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURING METHOD; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; UTERINE ARTERY EMBOLIZATION; UTERUS BLEEDING; UTERUS MYOMA; UTERUS PERFORATION; VAGINAL HYSTERECTOMY;

FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; HYSTEROSCOPY; LAPAROSCOPY; LEIOMYOMA; MYOMETRIUM; UTERINE ARTERY EMBOLIZATION; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 44949189501     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2008.01.011     Document Type: Review

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