Abstract
Infertility imposes great psychological stress on most couples involved1. It was our intention to examine this psychological stress and its influence on the patients in cases of mechanical infertility. The possibility of microsurgical intervention can on the one hand enforce stress and anxiety, but on the other hand hopes can arise by the prospect of the operation that something very drastic can be done to overcome the mechanical barrier to fertility.
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Eibschitz, I., Erdreich, M., de Vries, K., Shihor, H., Sharf, M. (1984). Psychological issues in mechanical infertility. In: Harrison, R.F., Bonnar, J., Thompson, W. (eds) Diagnosis and Management of Tubo-Uterine Factors in Infertility. Studies in Fertility and Sterility, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7621-7_39
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