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Editorial

Certificates of virginity and reconstruction of the hymen

Professor em. Jean-Jacques Amy The European Journal of Contraception and Reproductive Health Care, Editor-in-ChiefCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 111-113 | Published online: 06 Jul 2009

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