Contraception
Volume 79, Issue 5 , Pages 397-402 , May 2009

Insertion of intrauterine contraceptives immediately following first- and second-trimester abortions

  • Eleanor A. Drey

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA. Tel.: +1 415 206 8358; fax: +1 415 206 3112.
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  • Matthew F. Reeves

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and the Magee-Women's Research Institute, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
    • ,
  • Dawn D. Ogawa

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
    • ,
  • Abby Sokoloff

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
    • ,
  • Philip D. Darney

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
    • ,
  • Jody E. Steinauer

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

Received 18 January 2008 ,Revised 18 November 2008 ,Accepted 21 November 2008.

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☆ The study was funded by an anonymous foundation.

PII: S0010-7824(08)00549-0

doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2008.11.019

Contraception
Volume 79, Issue 5 , Pages 397-402 , May 2009

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