Outpatient procedure for the treatment and relief of symptomatic uterine myomas

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1075-1082

  Chudnoff, Scott G ^a   Berman, Jay M ^a   Levine, David J ^a   Harris, Micah ^a   Guido, Richard S ^a   Banks, Erika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BLEEDING; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROSCOPIC ULTRASOUND GUIDED RADIOFREQUENCY VOLUMETRIC THERMAL ABLATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; TUMOR VOLUME; UTERUS MYOMA;

EID: 84879124766     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: 1873233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0b013e31828b7962     Document Type: Conference Paper

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