Journal of Pediatric Surgery
Volume 37, Issue 7 , Pages 955-960 , July 2002

Vaginal reconstruction for ambiguous genitalia and congenital absence of the vagina: A 27-year experience

Presented at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Section on Surgery of the American Academy of Pediatrics, San Francisco, California, October 19-21, 2001.

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☆ Address reprint requests to Arnold G. Coran, MD, Section of Pediatric Surgery, C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, F3970, Box 0245, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, MI 48109.

PII: S0022-3468(02)00002-7

doi: 10.1053/jpsu.2002.33815

Journal of Pediatric Surgery
Volume 37, Issue 7 , Pages 955-960 , July 2002

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