Heavy menstrual bleeding: work-up and management
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Heavy menstrual bleeding diagnosis and medical management
Heavy menstrual bleeding (HMB) is a common gynecological problem that has a significant impact on a woman's quality of life and the activities of daily living. Due to the difficulty in accurately describing menstrual bleeding abnormalities using older terminology, the PALM-COEIN classification system of the Federation Internationale de Gynecologie et d'Obstetrique was proposed to describe and i...
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Jane Clarke research fellow, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology , University of Auckland, Grafton, Auckland 1010, New Zealand [email protected] Competing interests: The author has completed the Unified Competing Interest form at www.icmje.org/coi_disclosure. pdf (available on request from the corresponding author) and declares: (1) No financial support for the submitted work from an...
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عنوان ژورنال: Hematology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1520-4391,1520-4383
DOI: 10.1182/asheducation-2016.1.236