Erratum: Pictorial blood loss assessment chart in the evaluation of heavy menstrual bleeding: Diagnostic accuracy compared to alkaline hematin (Gynecologic and Obstetric Investigation (2011) 71 (281-284) DOI: 10.1159/000320336);Pictorial blood loss assessment chart in the evaluation of heavy menstrual bleeding: Diagnostic accuracy compared to alkaline hematin

Gynecologic and Obstetric Investigation

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 281-284

  Zakherah, Mahmoud S ^a   Sayed, Gamal H ^a   El Nashar, Sherif A ^a,b   Shaaban, Mamdouh M ^a  

^a Assiut University Faculty of Medicine   (Egypt)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Heavy menstrual bleeding; Menstrual blood loss

Indexed keywords

HEMATIN; HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AGE; ALKALINE HEMATIN; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MENORRHAGIA; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PARIT; PICTORIAL BLOOD LOSS ASSESSMENT CHART; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79959297325     PISSN: 03787346     EISSN: 1423002X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000529330     Document Type: Erratum

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