Hysteroscopic bipolar surgery: A valuable progress or a technique under investigation?

Current Opinion in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 329-334

  Garuti, Giancarlo ^a   Luerti, Massimo ^a  

^a Lodi Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bipolar microelectrodes; Bipolar surgery; Hysteroscopic resectoscopy; Hysteroscopy; Operative hysteroscopy

Indexed keywords

COST CONTROL; ELECTROSURGERY; ENDOMETRIUM ABLATION; ENDOMETRIUM POLYP; ENDOSCOPY; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; HYSTEROSCOPE; HYSTEROSCOPY; MICROELECTRODE; MYOMECTOMY; POLYPECTOMY; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TREATMENT FAILURE; UTERINE CERVIX DILATATION; UTERUS MYOMA;

AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ELECTRODES; ELECTROSURGERY; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTEROSCOPES; HYSTEROSCOPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 68949181549     PISSN: 1040872X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/GCO.0b013e32832e07ac     Document Type: Review

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