Clinical outcomes from a randomised comparison of Microwave Endometrial Ablation with Thermal Balloon endometrial ablation for the treatment of heavy menstrual bleeding
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Clinical outcomes from a randomised comparison of Microwave Endometrial Ablation with Thermal Balloon endometrial ablation for the treatment of heavy menstrual bleeding.
OBJECTIVE To compare the clinical outcomes of microwave endometrial ablation and thermal balloon ablation for the treatment of heavy menstrual bleeding. DESIGN A double blind randomised controlled trial. SETTING A UK teaching hospital. POPULATION Three hundred and twenty women requesting endometrial ablation. METHODS Operative data collection and patient completed postal questionnaires ...
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عنوان ژورنال: BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1470-0328
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2009.02181.x