Fertility and Sterility
Volume 90, Issue 4 , Pages 994-999 , October 2008

Serum interleukin-8 levels are elevated in patients with ovarian endometrioma

Received 2 April 2007 ,Revised 19 July 2007 ,Accepted 23 July 2007.

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doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.07.1355

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 90, Issue 4 , Pages 994-999 , October 2008

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