Fertility and Sterility
Volume 71, Issue 4 , Pages 765-770 , April 1999

Computer-controlled bipolar endotubal sterilization is successful in a rabbit model

Presented at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, November 2–6, 1996.

  • Bradley Shawn Hurst, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado, USA
    • Reproductive Endocrinology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests and present address: Bradley Shawn Hurst, M.D., University of Kentucky, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 800 Rose Street, Lexington, Kentucky 40536-0293 (FAX: 606-323-1931)
    • ,
  • Thomas Ryan, M.S.

      Affiliations

    • Valleylab, Inc., Boulder, Colorado, USA
    • Valleylab, Inc.
    • ,
  • Sharon Thomsen, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
    • Department of Pathology, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.
    • ,
  • Kate Lawes, M.S.

      Affiliations

    • Valleylab, Inc., Boulder, Colorado, USA
    • Valleylab, Inc.

Received 20 July 1998 ,Revised 1 December 1998 ,Accepted 1 December 1998.

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☆ Supported in part by a grant from Valleylab, Inc., Boulder, Colorado.

PII: S0015-0282(98)00544-5

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 71, Issue 4 , Pages 765-770 , April 1999

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