Randomized trial of oral versus sublingual misoprostol 24 h after mifepristone for medical abortion

Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Volumn 284, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 59-63

  Dahiya, Krishna ^a   Mann, Sonika ^a   Nanda, Smiti ^a  

^a POST GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Medical abortion; Mifepristone; Sublingual misoprostol

Indexed keywords

MIFEPRISTONE; MISOPROSTOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CONTRACEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DIZZINESS; DRUG DOSAGE FORM COMPARISON; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; LOWER ABDOMINAL PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL ABORTION; MUSCLE CRAMP; NAUSEA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VOMITING;

ABORTIFACIENT AGENTS, NONSTEROIDAL; ABORTIFACIENT AGENTS, STEROIDAL; ABORTION, INDUCED; ADMINISTRATION, SUBLINGUAL; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIFEPRISTONE; MISOPROSTOL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79958833366     PISSN: 09320067     EISSN: 14320711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00404-010-1590-2     Document Type: Article

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