Fertility and Sterility
Volume 88, Issue 4 , Pages 817-821 , October 2007

Social concerns of women undergoing infertility treatment

  • Peter S. Finamore, M.A., M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, UMDNJ–Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests to: Peter S. Finamore, M.A., M.D., 3 Cooper Plaza, Cooper University Hospital, Camden, NJ 08103.
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  • David B. Seifer, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Genesis Fertility and Reproductive Medicine Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York
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  • Cande V. Ananth, Ph.D., M.P.H.

      Affiliations

    • Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UMDNJ–Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey
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  • Sandra R. Leiblum, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, UMDNJ–Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey

Received 5 August 2006 ,Revised 29 December 2006 ,Accepted 29 December 2006.

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PII: S0015-0282(07)00117-3

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.01.009

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 88, Issue 4 , Pages 817-821 , October 2007

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