Fertility and Sterility
Volume 92, Issue 4 , Pages 1497.e13-1497.e16 , October 2009

A novel surgical treatment for cesarean scar pregnancy: laparoscopically assisted operative hysteroscopy

Received 8 June 2009 ,Revised 7 July 2009 ,Accepted 15 July 2009.

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 J.K.R. has nothing to disclose. M.B.D. has nothing to disclose. P.G. has nothing to disclose. D.F. has nothing to disclose.

PII: S0015-0282(09)02492-3

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.07.996

Fertility and Sterility
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