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Brent A Parnell1, Gena C Dunivan, Elizabeth J Geller

  • 1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Campus Box 7570, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7570, USA. bparnell@med.unc.edu

International Urogynecology Journal
|October 21, 2010
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