Microwave endometrial ablation

Modern Management of Abnormal Uterine Bleeding

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 157-165

  Sharp, Nicholas C ^a  

^a ROYAL UNITED HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

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