Heavy menstrual bleeding: Considering the most effective treatment option

Women's Health

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 143-146

  Arena, Saverio ^a   Zupi, Errico ^b  

^a Azienda Ospedaliera   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

endometrial ablation; heavy menstrual bleeding; hysterectomy; menorrhagia

Indexed keywords

ADENOMYOSIS; ANEMIA; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; EARLY MENOPAUSE; ENDOMETRIUM ABLATION; ENDOMETRIUM HYPERPLASIA; ENDOMETRIUM POLYP; HEALTH CARE COST; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SEPSIS; URINE INCONTINENCE; URINE RETENTION; UTERUS BLEEDING; UTERUS MYOMA;

ENDOMETRIAL ABLATION TECHNIQUES; ENDOMETRIAL HYPERPLASIA; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; LEIOMYOMA; MENORRHAGIA; POLYPS; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 79952807853     PISSN: 17455057     EISSN: 17455065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/whe.11.1     Document Type: Review

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