Fertility and Sterility
Volume 75, Issue 4 , Pages 656-660 , April 2001

A comparison of intrauterine versus intracervical insemination in fertile single women

  • Nina Carroll, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Fenway Community Health Center, Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Nina Carroll, M.D., 1400 Centre Street, Suite 206, Newton Centre, Massachusetts 02459 (FAX: 617-630-9828 )
    • ,
  • Julie R Palmer (Sc.D.)

      Affiliations

    • Slone Epidemiology, Boston University School of Medicine USA

Received 7 July 2000 ,Revised 26 September 2000 ,Accepted 26 September 2000.

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☆ Supported by a grant from the Lesbian Health Fund of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association.

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Fertility and Sterility
Volume 75, Issue 4 , Pages 656-660 , April 2001

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