Fertility and Sterility
Volume 94, Issue 2 , Pages 401-407 , July 2010

Congenital malformations of the female genital tract: the need for a new classification system

  • Grigoris F. Grimbizis, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • First Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Assistant Professor Grigoris F. Grimbizis, First Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Tsimiski 51 Street, 54623, Thessaloniki, Greece (FAX: 30-2310-991510).
    • ,
  • Rudi Campo, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • European Academy of Gynecological Surgery and European Society of Gynecological Endoscopy, Leuven, Belgium

Received 8 August 2009 ,Revised 4 February 2010 ,Accepted 15 February 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2010.02.030

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 94, Issue 2 , Pages 401-407 , July 2010

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