Removing the cervix at hysterectomy: An unnecessary intervention?

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1262-1269

  Thakar, Ranee ^a   Ayers, Susan ^b   Srivastava, Rashmi ^b   Manyonda, Isaac ^b  

^a MAYDAY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAXATIVE;

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CLIMACTERIUM; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTOCELE; DEFECATION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DYSPAREUNIA; DYSURIA; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; ENERGY; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FLATULENCE; FOLLOW UP; HARD FECES; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH STATUS; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; IMPAIRED BLADDER EMPTYING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINE FUNCTION; LUBRICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL HEALTH; MICTURITION DISORDER; MULTICENTER STUDY; NOCTURIA; ORGASM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PELVIS; PHYSICAL DISEASE; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STRESS INCONTINENCE; SUBTOTAL ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; TOTAL ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURE; URGE INCONTINENCE; URINARY FREQUENCY; URINARY TRACT FUNCTION; URINARY URGENCY; UTERINE CERVIX; HYSTERECTOMY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; TIME;

ADULT; CERVIX UTERI; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; TIME;

EID: 58849090553     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0b013e31818f3bf5     Document Type: Article

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