Fertility and Sterility
Volume 83, Issue 5 , Pages 1473-1479 , May 2005

Effect of myomectomy on the outcome of assisted reproductive technologies

Presented in part at the 59th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, October 11–15, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, and the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast Reproductive Society, April 27–May 2, 2004, Rancho Mirage, California.

Received 29 June 2004 ,Accepted 2 November 2004.

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PII: S0015-0282(05)00126-3

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2004.11.045

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 83, Issue 5 , Pages 1473-1479 , May 2005

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