Fertility and Sterility
Volume 74, Issue 5 , Pages 889-891 , November 2000

Endometrial stripe thickness in tubal and intrauterine pregnancies

Presented at the 53rd annual meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 18–22, 1997.

  • Michael Levgur, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Jacobi Medical Center, Albert Einstein School of Medicine, Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York, USA
    • Present address: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York.
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Michael Levgur, M.D., Maimonides Medical Center, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 967 48th Street, Brooklyn, New York 11219 (FAX: 718-283-8468 )
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  • Tony Tsai, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Jacobi Medical Center, Albert Einstein School of Medicine, Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York, USA
    • Present address: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York.
    • ,
  • Katherine Kang, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Jacobi Medical Center, Albert Einstein School of Medicine, Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York, USA
    • Present address: Department of Obstetics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Services, University of California—San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
    • ,
  • Joseph Feldman (Dr.P.H.)

      Affiliations

    • Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York, USA
    • ,
  • Leslie A Kory, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Jacobi Medical Center, Albert Einstein School of Medicine, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Received 22 February 2000 ,Accepted 25 May 2000.

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Fertility and Sterility
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