Diagnostic Hysteroscopy Using Liquid Distention Medium: Comparison of Pain with Warmed Saline Solution vs Room-Temperature Saline Solution

Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 104-107

  Evangelista, Alessandra ^a   Oliveira, Marco Aurélio P ^a   Crispi, Cláudio P ^a   Lamblet, Márcio F ^a   Raymundo, Thiers S ^a   Santos, Luis Carlos ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Abnormal uterine bleeding; Hysteroscopy; Pain; Visual analog scale; Warmed saline solution

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYSTEROSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PAIN; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SPECULAR MICROSCOPY; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTEROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

EID: 78650682376     PISSN: 15534650     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmig.2010.09.009     Document Type: Article

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