Fertility and Sterility
Volume 84, Issue 2 , Pages 313-318 , August 2005

Evaluating the role of exogenous luteinizing hormone in poor responders undergoing in vitro fertilization with gonadotropin-releasing hormone antagonists

Presented in part at the 58th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, Seattle, Washington, October 2002.

  • Karine Chung, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests and present address: Karine Chung, M.D., Penn Fertility Care, 3701 Market Street, Suite 800, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 (FAX: 215-349-5512).
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  • Lewis Krey, Ph.D.
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  • Joseph Katz, Ph.D.
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  • Nicole Noyes, M.D.

Received 13 September 2004 ,Accepted 15 February 2005.

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PII: S0015-0282(05)00917-9

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2005.02.028

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 84, Issue 2 , Pages 313-318 , August 2005

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