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Original Articles

Establishment of a scoring system for predicting the difficulty level of high-intensity focussed ultrasound ablation of uterine fibroids

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Pages 77-86 | Received 13 Nov 2016, Accepted 26 Apr 2017, Published online: 19 May 2017

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