Pregnancy After Hysteroscopic Endometrial Ablation Without Endometrial Preparation: A Report of Five Cases and a Literature Review

Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 311-319

  Yin, Chang Sheng ^a  

^a Kang Ning General Hospital   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Endometrial ablation; Hysteroscopy; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLEEDING; ADULT; ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; CONTRACEPTION; CORPUS CALLOSUM AGENESIS; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; DOWN SYNDROME; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; ENDOMETRIUM; ENDOMETRIUM ABLATION; FEMALE; FETUS MALFORMATION; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; HYSTEROSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEMBRANE RUPTURE; MENORRHAGIA; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; PREMATURITY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; UTERINE TUBE PREGNANCY; UTERUS RUPTURE;

ADULT; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTEROSCOPY; MENORRHAGIA; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 78149326828     PISSN: 10284559     EISSN: 10284559     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1028-4559(10)60067-8     Document Type: Article

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