Fertility and Sterility
Volume 90, Issue 2 , Pages 409-414 , August 2008

Postoperative adhesiolysis therapy for intrauterine adhesions (Asherman's syndrome)

  • James K. Robinson, M.D., M.S.

      Affiliations

    • Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery Center, Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Newton, Massachusetts
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: James K. Robinson, M.D., M.S., Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical Faculty Associates, George Washington University, 2150 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20037 (FAX: 202-741-2550).
    • ,
  • Liza M. Swedarsky Colimon, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Brigham and Women's Hospital, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Boston, Massachusetts
    • ,
  • Keith B. Isaacson, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery Center, Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Newton, Massachusetts

Received 4 November 2006 ,Revised 10 April 2007 ,Accepted 10 April 2007.

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 This research was originally presented at the 61st annual American Society for Reproductive Medicine meeting, which was held in Montreal, Canada, in October 2005, and the 34th annual American Association of Gynecologic Laporoscopists (AAGL) meeting, which was held in Chicago in November 2005. It was honored as the Best Society of Reproductive Surgeons (SRS)/AAGL Fellowship Research Paper in 2005. It also received the second place Golden Hysteroscope Award for best hysteroscopic paper at the 34th annual AAGL meeting.

PII: S0015-0282(07)01377-5

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.06.034

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 90, Issue 2 , Pages 409-414 , August 2008

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