Emergency contraception: An unresolved issue

Contraception

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 187-

  Burgo, Crisitina Lopez Del ^a   Mikolajczyk, Rafael T ^b   Stanford, Joseph B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEVONORGESTREL;

EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION; FERTILIZATION; HORMONAL CONTRACEPTION; HUMAN; LETTER; NIDATION; OVULATION INHIBITION; PREGNANCY RATE; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE;

CONTRACEPTION, POSTCOITAL; CONTRACEPTIVES, POSTCOITAL; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; HUMANS; LEVONORGESTREL; OVULATION;

EID: 78651460527     PISSN: 00107824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.contraception.2010.07.017     Document Type: Letter

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