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I would like to thank the Journal for asking me to comment on Dr Chaudhry's letter.1 I lead a regional referral centre for complex contraceptive problems in Newcastle upon Tyne and have managed a small number of women presenting with chronic contraceptive implant infections.
Published data suggest that post-insertion infections are rare with an incidence of less than 0.5% for …
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Competing interests The author has received financial support to attend pharmaceutical advisory board meetings, undertake research studies, speak at educational meetings and conferences along with travel grants from Astellas, Bayer, Consilient Healthcare, HRA Pharma, Merck, Pfizer and Vifor Pharma.
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Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.