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Female Tubal Sterilization

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The Handbook of Contraception

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Although the first tubal sterilization was performed more than 125 years ago, it took many years before it gained widespread acceptance. Today surgical sterilization is a simple, safe, and cost-effective method of achieving long-term contraception. It remains the second (behind oral contraceptives [OCs]) most widely used form of contraception in the United States (Chapter 1). The emergence of sterilization as a popular method of avoiding pregnancy paralleled the introduction of OCs. Both methods became readily acceptable at the time of the “sexual revolution.”

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  1. California Fertility Partners, Division of Gynecology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

    Charles M. March MD

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  1. Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Family Medicine, Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

    Donna Shoupe MD

  2. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

    Siri L. Kjos MD

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    Siri L. Kjos MD

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March, C.M. (2006). Female Tubal Sterilization. In: Shoupe, D., Kjos, S.L. (eds) The Handbook of Contraception. Current Clinical Practice. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-150-5_13

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