Fertility and Sterility
Volume 90, Issue 5 , Pages 1812-1817 , November 2008

A survey of preferences and practices of endometrial ablation/resection for menorrhagia in the United Kingdom

  • Shilpa Deb, M.B.B.S., M.R.C.O.G.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Nottingham University Hospitals, Queens Medical Centre Campus, Nottingham, United Kingdom
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests to: Shilpa Deb, M.B.B.S., M.R.C.O.G., 39, Woodcote way, Littleover, Derby DE23 3WR, UK.
    • ,
  • Kulwant Flora, B.Sc. (Hons)

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Human Development, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
    • ,
  • William Atiomo, D.M., M.A., M.R.C.O.G., F.H.E.A.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Human Development, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Received 6 June 2007 ,Revised 21 August 2007 ,Accepted 21 August 2007.

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 None of the authors have any conflict of interest.

 Funding source: School of Human Development, University of Nottingham, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK.

 Abstract accepted for presentation at the British International Congress of Obstetrics and Gynecology in London, July 4–6, 2007.

PII: S0015-0282(07)03395-X

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.08.052

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 90, Issue 5 , Pages 1812-1817 , November 2008

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