Safety of quinacrine contraceptive pellets: results from 10-year follow-up in Vietnam

Contraception

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 66-72

  Sokal, David C ^a   Hieu, Do Trong ^b   Loan, Nguyen Dinh ^b   Hubacher, David ^a   Nanda, Kavita ^a   Weiner, Debra H ^a   Vach, Trinh Huu ^c  

^a FAMILY HEALTH INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Viet Nam)

^c Research Center for Rural Population and Health   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Follow up study; Nonsurgical; Quinacrine; Safety; Tubal sterilization

Indexed keywords

MEPACRINE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AMENORRHEA; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLITIS; CONTRACEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG SAFETY; DYSMENORRHEA; DYSPEPSIA; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; ENDOMETRITIS; ENTEROCOLITIS; FEMALE; FEMALE STERILIZATION; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INTRAUTERINE CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENORRHAGIA; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; NEOPLASM; NEPHROLITHIASIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OLIGOMENORRHEA; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PELVIS SURGERY; PERITONITIS; SALPINGITIS; URETHRITIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; UTERINE CERVICITIS; UTERINE TUBE STERILIZATION; UTERUS MYOMA; VIET NAM;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; COHORT STUDIES; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTRAUTERINE DEVICES; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PREGNANCY, ECTOPIC; QUINACRINE; SAFETY; STERILIZATION, REPRODUCTIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIETNAM; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 46549088370     PISSN: 00107824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.contraception.2008.02.011     Document Type: Article

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