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A novel perspective on premature removal of contraceptive implants
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  1. Christopher I Pelton,, MRCOG, DRCOG
  1. Salaried Practitioner, Portculllis Surgery, Ludlow, UK; chris.pelton@nhs.net

https://doi.org/10.1136/jfprhc-2012-100554

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    Having kept a personal log of all insertions and removals of the etonogestrel contraceptive implants, Implanon® and Nexplanon®, for over 6 years, I noticed that if one plots the numbers remaining against the time from insertion, the points begin to resemble exponential decay for up to 34 months when there is an expected steep decline …

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