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Uterine Polyps Symptoms
Anovulatory bleeding; Bleeding - dysfunctional uterine; DUB; Abnormal uterine bleeding; Menorrhagia - dysfunctional; Polymenorrhea - dysfunctional; Metrorrhagia - dysfunctional
Treatment
Young women within a few years of their first period are often not treated unless symptoms are very severe, such as heavy blood loss causing
In other women, the goal of treatment is to control the menstrual cycle.
- Oral birth control pills or progesterone only pills are often used
- An
intrauter...
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