The management of miscarriage

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 479-491

  Sur, Shyamaly D ^a   Raine Fenning, Nicholas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

delayed; expectant; incomplete; medical; miscarriage; surgical

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIGESTAGEN; GEMEPROST; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; MIDAZOLAM; MIFEPRISTONE; MISOPROSTOL; PLACEBO; PROSTAGLANDIN; PROSTAGLANDIN DERIVATIVE;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSAGE FORM COMPARISON; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; ECHOGRAPHY; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; EMOTIONALITY; ENDOMETRIAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LOW DRUG DOSE; MATERNAL CARE; MEDICAL CARE; OBSTETRIC OPERATION; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; QUALITY OF LIFE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGINA BLEEDING;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; COUNSELING; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PREGNANCY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 67650033091     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2009.01.014     Document Type: Article

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