Endometrial ablation: Postoperative complications

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 207, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 242-247

  Sharp, Howard T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

complications; endometrial ablation; hysteroscopy; infection

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ADENOMYOSIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; CESAREAN SECTION; CORNUAL ABSCESS; DYSMENORRHEA; ECHOGRAPHY; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASIA; ENDOMETRITIS; ENDOMETRIUM ABLATION; ENDOMETRIUM HYPERPLASIA; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS MORTALITY; FOLLOW UP; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEMATOMETRA; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE SCARRING; LAPAROTOMY; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARITY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PELVIS ABSCESS; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PHYSICIAN; PLACENTA ACCRETA; POSTABLATION TUBAL STERILIZATION SYNDROME; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYOMETRA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TREATMENT FAILURE; TUBOOVARIAN ABSCESS; UTERUS BLEEDING; UTERUS DISEASE; UTERUS RUPTURE;

AGE FACTORS; ENDOMETRIAL ABLATION TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 84866948947     PISSN: 00029378     EISSN: 10976868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2012.04.011     Document Type: Review

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