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Infertility surgery is dead: only the obituary remains?

Feinberg EC, Levens ED, DeCherney AH

Combined Federal Fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at National Institutes of Health, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, National Naval Medical Center, and Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.

Despite the multiple advantages of assisted reproductive technology compared with surgery, there remain several diagnoses for which surgery is still widely performed: distal tubal occlusion, regret of permanent sterilization, and endometriosis. Assisted reproductive technology is superior to surgery and should be offered as first-line treatment.

Published 14 January 2008 in Fertil Steril, 89(1): 232-6.
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