Fertility and Sterility
Volume 94, Issue 6 , Pages 2272-2276 , November 2010

Psychosexual and functional outcomes after creation of a neovagina with laparoscopic Davydov in patients with vaginal agenesis

  • Lisa M. Allen, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Toronto, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Lisa M. Allen, M.D., Ontario Power Generation Building, 700 University Avenue, 3rd Floor, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1Z5, Canada (FAX: 416-586-8287).
    • ,
  • Kerith L. Lucco, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Toronto, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California
    • ,
  • Cortney M. Brown, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department on Obstetritics/Gynecology, Maryland General Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
    • ,
  • Rachel F. Spitzer, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Toronto, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • ,
  • Sari Kives, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Toronto, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Received 28 June 2009 ,Revised 3 January 2010 ,Accepted 2 February 2010.

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 L.M.A. has nothing to disclose. K.L.L. has nothing to disclose. C.M.B. has nothing to disclose. R.F.S. has nothing to disclose. S.K. has nothing to disclose.

PII: S0015-0282(10)00258-X

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2010.02.008

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 94, Issue 6 , Pages 2272-2276 , November 2010

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