Contraception
Volume 67, Issue 1 , Pages 41-47 , January 2003

Quality of life following early medical or surgical abortion

  • Carolyn Westhoff

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Columbia University, 630 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032, USA
    • Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 630 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1-212-305-4805; fax: +1-212-305-6438.
    • ,
  • Lucy Picardo

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, St. Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital Center, 1000 Tenth Ave., New York, NY 10023, USA
    • ,
  • Ellen Morrow

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Columbia University, 630 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032, USA

Received 31 July 2002 ,Revised 10 September 2002 ,Accepted 10 September 2002.

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PII: S0010-7824(02)00444-4

doi: 10.1016/S0010-7824(02)00444-4

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