Fertility and Sterility
Volume 94, Issue 4 , Pages 1189-1194 , September 2010

Analysis of pain and satisfaction with office-based hysteroscopic sterilization

Received 13 January 2009 ,Revised 2 July 2009 ,Accepted 14 July 2009.

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 M. Levie serves on the medical advisory board of Conceptus and has received honoraria for lectures on the Essure device for Conceptus. G.W. has nothing to disclose. B.K. has nothing to disclose. J.D. has nothing to disclose. S.G.C. has nothing to disclose.

PII: S0015-0282(09)02490-X

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.07.994

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 94, Issue 4 , Pages 1189-1194 , September 2010

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