Resources and procedures in the treatment of heavy menstrual bleeding with the levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system (LNG-IUS) or hysterectomy in Brazil

Contraception

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 244-250

  Bahamondes, M Valeria ^a   De Lima, Yuri ^a   Teich, Vanessa ^b   Bahamondes, Luis ^a   Monteiro, Ilza ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b MedInsight   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Heavy menstrual bleeding; Hysterectomy; Levonorgestrel releasing intrauterine system; Mirena; Pharmacoeconomics

Indexed keywords

LEVONORGESTREL;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ARTICLE; BLADDER PERFORATION; BRAZIL; CONSULTATION; DISEASE DURATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEAVY MENSTRUAL BLEEDING; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINE PERFORATION; INTRAUTERINE CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; URETER REIMPLANTATION;

ADULT; BRAZIL; COHORT STUDIES; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS, FEMALE; FEMALE; HEALTH RESOURCES; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; INTRAUTERINE DEVICE EXPULSION; INTRAUTERINE DEVICES, MEDICATED; LEVONORGESTREL; MENORRHAGIA; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 84865091349     PISSN: 00107824     EISSN: 18790518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.contraception.2011.12.005     Document Type: Article

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