Contraception
Volume 73, Issue 5 , Pages 507-511 , May 2006

Hormone levels before and after tubal sterilization

  • Gwen P. Gentile

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, State University of New York–Downstate, Brooklyn, NY 11203, USA
    • ,
  • Donald W. Helbig

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, State University of New York–Downstate, Brooklyn, NY 11203, USA
    • ,
  • Howard Zacur

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    • ,
  • Taesung Park

      Affiliations

    • Department of Statistics, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, South Korea
    • ,
  • Young Jack Lee

      Affiliations

    • Division of Biostatistics, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD, USA
    • Hanyang University, Seoul 122-791, South Korea
    • ,
  • Carolyn L. Westhoff

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Columbia University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10032, USA
    • The Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10032, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Columbia University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10032, USA.

Received 1 November 2005 ,Revised 21 November 2005 ,Accepted 14 December 2005.

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PII: S0010-7824(05)00480-4

doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2005.12.002

Contraception
Volume 73, Issue 5 , Pages 507-511 , May 2006

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