Nonsurgical Option for Fibroid Treatment: Uterine Fibroid Embolization

Fibroids

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 76-84

  Fenlon, Edward ^a   Spies, James B ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Fibroid; Hysterectomy; Leiomyoma; Menorrhagia; Metrorrhagia; Minimally invasive; Myomectomy; Pelvic pain; Uterine artery embolization; Uterine fibroid embolization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887240682     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118456996.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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