Contraceptive efficacy of emergency contraception with levonorgestrel given before or after ovulation

Contraception

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 414-420

  Noé, Gabriela ^a   Croxatto, Horacio B ^a   Salvatierra, Ana María ^a   Reyes, Verónica ^a   Villarroel, Claudio ^a   Muñoz, Carla ^a   Morales, Gabriela ^a   Retamales, Anita ^a  

^a Instituto Chileno de Medicina Reproductiva   (Chile)

Author keywords

Contraceptive efficacy; Emergency contraception; Levonorgestrel

Indexed keywords

'TACE'; ESTRADIOL; LEVONORGESTREL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORPUS LUTEUM; DRUG EFFICACY; EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; FERTILE PERIOD; FERTILIZATION; FOLLICULAR PHASE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENSTRUATION; OPEN STUDY; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVULATION; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNSAFE SEX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COITUS; CONTRACEPTION, POSTCOITAL; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS, FEMALE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEVONORGESTREL; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; OVULATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950930701     PISSN: 00107824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.contraception.2009.12.015     Document Type: Article

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