Evaluating the risks of electric uterine morcellation

JAMA

Volumn 311, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 905-906

  Kho, Kimberly A ^a   Nezhat, Ceana H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Atlanta Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery and Reproductive Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVALESCENCE; ELECTRIC UTERINE MORCELLATION; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INFORMED CONSENT; LAPAROSCOPIC MORCELLATOR; LAPAROSCOPIC SCALPEL; LAPAROSCOPIC SCISSORS; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; NOTE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS; SURGICAL RISK; UTERUS SARCOMA; UTERUS SURGERY; WOUND COMPLICATION;

ELECTRICITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; INFORMED CONSENT; LAPAROSCOPY; LEIOMYOMA; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; RISK; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84895420717     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2014.1093     Document Type: Note

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