Fertility and Sterility
Volume 95, Issue 2 , Pages 775-778 , February 2011

Benefit of uterine artery ligation in laparoscopic myomectomy

Received 12 March 2010 ,Revised 6 July 2010 ,Accepted 26 July 2010.

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 J.H.B. has nothing to disclose. G.O.C. has nothing to disclose. W.J.S. has nothing to disclose. D.G.H. has nothing to disclose. Y.S.L. has nothing to disclose.

PII: S0015-0282(10)02205-3

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2010.07.1079

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 95, Issue 2 , Pages 775-778 , February 2011

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