Treatment options for vulvar vestibulitis

Contemporary Ob/Gyn

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 47-61

  Stewart, Elizabeth Gunther ^a,b  

^a HARVARD VANGUARD MEDICAL ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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