Abortion, Complications: Differential Diagnoses & Workup

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Further Reading

Keywords

miscarriage, abortion complications, spontaneous abortion, therapeutic abortion, postabortion complications, complications of anesthesia, postabortion triad, vaginal bleeding, hematometra, retained products of conception, uterine perforation, bowel and bladder injury, failed abortion, septic abortion, cervical shock, cervical laceration, disseminated intravascular coagulation, DIC, complications of abortion

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