Surgical methods for first trimester termination of pregnancy

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2010, Issue 1, 2001, Pages

  Kulier, Regina ^a   Cheng, Linan ^b   Fekih, Anis ^c   Hofmeyr, G Justus ^d   Campana, Aldo ^a  

^a WHO Collaborating Centre in Education and Research in Human Reproduction   (Switzerland)

^b School of Medicine   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURETTAGE; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; INDUCED ABORTION; METHODOLOGY; PREGNANCY; REVIEW;

ABORTION, INDUCED; DILATATION AND CURETTAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; VACUUM CURETTAGE;

EID: 84921537721     PISSN: 14651858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD002900     Document Type: Article

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