Risk of essure microinsert abdominal migration: Case report and review of literature

Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management

Volumn 10, Issue , 2014, Pages 963-968

  Ricci, Giuseppe ^a,b   Restaino, Stefano ^b   Di Lorenzo, Giovanni ^a   Fanfani, Francesco ^a   Scrimin, Federica ^a   Mangino, Francesco P ^a  

^a Institute for Maternal and Child Health   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Abdominal migration; Essure; Hysteroscopic sterilization; Hysteroscopy; Tubal sterilization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; CASE REPORT; DEVICE MIGRATION; DEVICE REMOVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYSTEROSALPINGOGRAPHY; LAPAROSCOPY; MEDICAL DEVICE COMPLICATION; OMENTUM; TISSUE ADHESION; TUBAL OCCLUSION INSERT; UTERINE TUBE STERILIZATION;

EID: 84919384688     PISSN: 11766336     EISSN: 1178203X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/TCRM.S65634     Document Type: Article

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