Fertility and Sterility
Volume 91, Issue 4, Supplement , Pages 1374-1377 , April 2009

High failure rates of medical termination of pregnancy after introduction to a large teaching hospital

Received 30 December 2007 ,Revised 15 April 2008 ,Accepted 15 April 2008.

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 D.V. has nothing to disclose. R.M. has nothing to disclose. M.B. has nothing to disclose. M.G. has nothing to disclose. E.S. has nothing to disclose. D.S. has nothing to disclose.

PII: S0015-0282(08)00896-0

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.04.030

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 91, Issue 4, Supplement , Pages 1374-1377 , April 2009

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