title: Reversal of female sterilisation.
abstract: Careful counselling before female sterilisation can reduce reversal requests but will never eliminate them. Approximately performed reversal has a high success rate but there is still a need for better means of reliable but reversible long-term contraception.
authors.affiliation: Singleton Hospital, Swansea.
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Calvert
mesh_terms: D000714:Anastomosis, Surgical / Q000379:methods; D004739:England; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008866:Microsurgery / Q000379:methods; D013243:Sterilization Reversal / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D013246:Sterilization, Tubal; D014852:Wales