Management and prevention of pelvic adhesions

Seminars in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 130-137

  Al Jabri, Sheikha ^a   Tulandi, Togas ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adhesion; adhesion barrier; adhesion prevention; postsurgical adhesion

Indexed keywords

ADEPT SOLUTION; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTIESTROGEN; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; CARBOXYMETHYLCELLULOSE; CARBOXYMETHYLCELLULOSE POLYETHYLENE OXIDE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; GESTAGEN; GONADORELIN AGONIST; HEPARIN; HYALOBARRIER GEL; HYALURONIC ACID; HYALURONIC ACID CARBOXYMETHYLCELLULOSE; HYALURONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ICODEXTRIN; INTERGEL; MACROGOL; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OXIDIZED REGENERATED CELLULOSE; POLITEF; POLYGLACTIN; POLYLACTIDE; RINGER LACTATE SOLUTION; SEPRACOAT; SEPRAFILM; STEROID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANASTOMOSIS DEHISCENCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CRYSTALLOID; DRUG ABSORPTION; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FIMBRIOPLASTY; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HUMAN; HYDROSALPINX; ILEUS; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROTOMY; META ANALYSIS; MICROSURGERY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PELVIC ADHESION; PELVIC DISEASE; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PERITONEUM; PERITONITIS; PHIMOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK FACTOR; SALPINGOPLASTY; SALPINGOSTOMY; SECOND LOOK SURGERY; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TISSUE ADHESION; TISSUE INJURY; WOUND HEALING;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; CELLULOSE; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GLUCANS; GLUCOSE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; HYALURONIC ACID; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; ISOTONIC SOLUTIONS; LAPAROSCOPY; PREGNANCY; SECOND-LOOK SURGERY; TISSUE ADHESIONS;

EID: 79953225544     PISSN: 15268004     EISSN: 15264564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0031-1272475     Document Type: Article

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