High failure rates of medical termination of pregnancy after introduction to a large teaching hospital

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 91, Issue 4 SUPPL., 2009, Pages 1374-1377

  Vitner, Dana ^a   Machtinger, Ronit ^a   Baum, Micha ^a   Goldenberg, Motti ^a   Schiff, Eyal ^a   Seidman, Daniel S ^a  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIFEPRISTONE; MISOPROSTOL;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MEDICAL ABORTION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NOMENCLATURE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY;

ABORTIFACIENT AGENTS, STEROIDAL; ABORTION, INDUCED; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; MIFEPRISTONE; PREGNANCY; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT FAILURE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; UTERINE CONTRACTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 63249088842     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.04.030     Document Type: Article

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