Fertility and Sterility
Volume 90, Issue 5 , Pages 2015.e21-2015.e22 , November 2008

Contraception in hereditary angioedema

  • Pablo I. Sanhueza, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Pablo I. Sanhueza, M.D., Obstetrics and Gynaecology Department, School of Medicine, Health Sciences Faculty, Andres Bello University, Sazie 2212, Santiago, Chile (FAX: 5626618333).

Received 3 December 2007 ,Revised 7 January 2008 ,Accepted 7 January 2008.

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 P.I.S. has nothing to disclose.

PII: S0015-0282(08)00039-3

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.01.032

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