Fertility and Sterility
Volume 90, Issue 5 , Pages 2017.e1-2017.e3 , November 2008

A case of female epispadias

  • Julierut Tantibhedhyangkul, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Fertility, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
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  • Susannah D. Copland, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Fertility, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
    • ,
  • Andrea M. Haqq, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Division of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
    • ,
  • Thomas M. Price, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Fertility, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Thomas M. Price, M.D., Duke Fertility Clinic, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology, Durham, NC 27713 (FAX: 919-484-0461).

Received 16 November 2007 ,Revised 13 December 2007 ,Accepted 19 December 2007.

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 J.T. has nothing to disclose. S.D.C. has nothing to disclose. A.M.H. has nothing to disclose. T.M.P. has nothing to disclose.

 Clinical activities for A.M.H. are supported by National Institutes of Health grant K23 RR 021979-03.

PII: S0015-0282(07)04335-X

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.12.055

Fertility and Sterility
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