Fertility and Sterility
Volume 82, Issue 4 , Pages 908-912 , October 2004

Obstetric implications for and identification of women with a normal clomiphene citrate challenge test result who have a poor response to gonadotropins

  • Glen E. Hofmann, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Bethesda Center for Reproductive Health and Infertility, Bethesda Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Glen E. Hofmann, M.D., Ph.D., Bethesda Center for Reproductive Health and Infertility, Bethesda Hospital, 10506 Montgomery Road, Cincinnati, Ohio 45242 (FAX: 513-745-1676
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  • James Sosnowski, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Bethesda Center for Reproductive Health and Infertility, Bethesda Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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  • Jane Khoury, M.S.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Environmental Health, Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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  • Leanna Kearns, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Bethesda Center for Reproductive Health and Infertility, Bethesda Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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  • Jennifer Thie, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Bethesda Center for Reproductive Health and Infertility, Bethesda Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Received 3 March 2003 ,Revised 17 May 2004 ,Accepted 17 May 2004.

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 Presented in part at the annual District V meeting of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Palm Beach, Florida, October 22–23, 2001.

PII: S0015-0282(04)01283-X

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2004.05.074

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 82, Issue 4 , Pages 908-912 , October 2004

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