Herbal preparations for uterine fibroids

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2013, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Liu, Jian Ping ^a   Yang, Hong ^a   Xia, Yun ^a   Cardini, Francesco ^b  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^b Regional Agency for Health and Social Care   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN AGONIST; HERBACEOUS AGENT; LEUPRORELIN; MIFEPRISTONE; GONADORELIN; HORMONE ANTAGONIST; PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT;

ABDOMINAL PRESSURE; AMENORRHEA; ANEMIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTIPATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HERBAL MEDICINE; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INCIDENCE; LOW BACK PAIN; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; MYOMECTOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PELVIC PAIN; POLLAKISURIA; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TUMOR VOLUME; UTERINE ARTERY EMBOLIZATION; UTERUS MYOMA; FEMALE; LEIOMYOMA; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PHYTOTHERAPY; UTERUS CANCER;

DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HORMONE ANTAGONISTS; HUMANS; LEIOMYOMA; MIFEPRISTONE; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT PREPARATIONS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84886828018     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD005292.pub3     Document Type: Review

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