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Chapter 15 - Hysteroscopic Management of Uterine Adhesions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 September 2020

By
Tin Chiu Li ,
Xuebing Peng  and
T. Justin Clark
Edited by
Mary E. Connor  and
T. Justin Clark
Mary E. Connor
Affiliation:
Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield
T. Justin Clark
Affiliation:
Birmingham Women’s Hospital
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Summary

Heinrich Fritsch reported the first case of intrauterine adhesions (IUAs) at the end of the nineteenth century. Since 1948, a series of papers on this condition have been published by Joseph G. Asherman, which describe the frequency, aetiology and symptoms of IUA

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Diagnostic and Operative Hysteroscopy , pp. 180 - 192
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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