Contraception
Volume 78, Issue 2 , Pages 155-161 , August 2008

Predictors and perception of pain in women undergoing first trimester surgical abortion

  • Rameet H. Singh

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 410 550 0335; fax: +1 410 550 0245.
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  • Khalil G. Ghanem

      Affiliations

    • Department of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
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  • Anne E. Burke

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
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  • Mark D. Nichols

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA
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  • Kathy Rogers

      Affiliations

    • Seneca Women's Health Care, Baltimore, MD 21239, USA
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  • Paul D. Blumenthal

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA

Received 25 September 2007 ,Revised 11 March 2008 ,Accepted 12 March 2008.

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PII: S0010-7824(08)00137-6

doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2008.03.011

Contraception
Volume 78, Issue 2 , Pages 155-161 , August 2008

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