Subendometrial microvascularization and uterine artery blood flow in IUD-induced side effects (levonorgestrel intrauterine system and copper intrauterine device)

Contraception

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 324-327

  Jiménez, Mirela F ^a   Vetori, Daniela ^a   Fagundes, Paulo A P ^b   de Freitas, Fernando M ^c   Cunha Filho, João S L ^a,b  

^a Faculdade de Medicina   (Brazil)

^b Serviço de Ecografia Genética e Reprodução SEGIR   (Brazil)

^c HOSPITAL DE CLÍNICAS DE PORTO ALEGRE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Doppler; Dysmenorrhea; Intrauterine devices; LNG IUS; Power Doppler; Utrasonography

Indexed keywords

COPPER INTRAUTERINE DEVICE; LEVONORGESTREL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DYSMENORRHEA; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUTEAL PHASE; MICROVASCULARIZATION; PARITY; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; UTERUS BLOOD FLOW;

ADULT; AMENORRHEA; ARTERIES; DYSMENORRHEA; FEMALE; HEMORHEOLOGY; HUMANS; INTRAUTERINE DEVICES, COPPER; INTRAUTERINE DEVICES, MEDICATED; MENORRHAGIA; MICROVESSELS; PULSATILE FLOW; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; UTERUS;

EID: 51449117410     PISSN: 00107824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.contraception.2008.06.013     Document Type: Article

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