Curettage

In terms of the statistics of pregnancy terminations of the Federal Statistical Office:
Curettage is the extraction or removal of a biological substrate from the inner surface of a hollow organ or a cavity caused by an illness by means of a curette (blunt or sharp special surgical spoon, full or fenestrated). In the proper sense as uterus curettage for diagnostic purposes or as therapeutical curettage, such as removal of abort relics. A curettage is to be done under general anaesthetic.

Selected information about Curettage:

Tables:

• Pregnancy terminations, by age and place of residence
• Pregnancy terminations, e.g. by age
• Pregnancy terminations, e.g. by features of statistics of pregnancy termination

Data Sources:

• Statistics on terminations of pregnancy

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