How best to manage dysfunctional uterine bleeding

Journal of Family Practice

Volumn 59, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Maness, David L ^a   Reddy, Avinash ^a   Harraway Smith, Carolyn L ^a   Mitchell, Gregg ^a   Givens, Vanessa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACNE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIZZINESS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; METRORRHAGIA; OBESITY; ANAMNESIS; BIOPSY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOMETRIUM; INTRAUTERINE CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE; RISK FACTOR; SURGERY;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; BIOPSY; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS, FEMALE; DANAZOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTROGEN ANTAGONISTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAUTERINE DEVICES; LEVONORGESTREL; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; METRORRHAGIA; RISK FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ANTIESTROGEN; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; DANAZOL; LEVONORGESTREL; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

EID: 77956066003     PISSN: 00943509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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