Fertility control

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Fertility control

editors, Stephen L. Corson, Richard J. Derman, Louise B. Tyrer

Goldin, c1994

2nd ed

  • : pbk

Available at  / 3 libraries

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Includes bibliographies and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This is the second edition of Corson, Derman, and Tyrer's complete medical textbook on fertility control. It has been revised and fully updated to include details about oral contraceptives and new progestins, the female condom, hormonal implantation, new information about IUDs, and the biochemistry, biological effects, and uses of mifepristone (RU-486).

Table of Contents

  • INTRODUCTION: Health Risks and Benefits of Contraceptive Use
  • Statistical Aspects of the Evaluation of the Safety and Effectiveness of Fertility Control Methods
  • Medicolegal Issues and Risk Reduction in Family Planning Practice. ORAL CONTRACEPTION:Principles of OC
  • Review of Norgestimate, Desogestrel, and Gestodene
  • OC Practice
  • Lipids, Carbohydrate Metabolism, and Cardiovascular Risk in OC Users. SPECIAL ISSUES: Early Pregnancy Evaluation: Hormonal or Anatomical
  • Ectopic Pregnancy
  • FamilyPlanning and STDs/HIV. INJECTABLES, IMPLANTABLES, AND BARRIERS: Injectable Contraception
  • Contraceptive Implants
  • Contraceptive Vaginal Rings
  • The Diaphragm
  • Cervical Caps and Female Condoms
  • The Contraceptive Sponge
  • Spermicides
  • Gonadotropin ReleasingHormone Analogs for Contraception. MALE CONTRACEPTION: Condoms
  • Hormonal Approach. STERILIZATION AND REVERSAL: Female Tubal Sterilization
  • Vasectomy
  • Reversal of Female Sterilization
  • Male Sterilization Reversal. INTRATUBAL OR INTRAUTERINE CONTRACEPTION:Hysteroscopic Sterilization
  • Intrauterine Contraceptives. MISCELLANEOUS TECHNIQUES: Coitus nterruptus
  • Postcoital Contraception (Interception)
  • RU-486
  • Antifertility Vaccines
  • Contraception by Periodic Abstinence or Lactational Anovulation. PREGNANCYTERMINATION: First Trimester Abortion Principles, Techniques, and Clinical Management
  • Induced Abortion in the Midtrimester. Index.

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  • NCID
    BA29244383
  • ISBN
    • 096979780X
  • Country Code
    cn
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London, Ont.
  • Pages/Volumes
    xi, 514 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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