Fertility and Sterility
Volume 91, Issue 3 , Pages 698-704 , March 2009

Defining the proliferative phase endometrial defect

  • Jason G. Bromer, M.D.
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  • Tamir S. Aldad, B.A.
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  • Hugh S. Taylor, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Hugh S. Taylor, M.D., Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06520 (FAX: 203-785-7819).

Received 28 August 2007 ,Revised 18 December 2007 ,Accepted 19 December 2007.

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 J.G.L.B. has nothing to disclose. T.S.A. has nothing to disclose. H.S.T. has nothing to disclose.

PII: S0015-0282(07)04339-7

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.12.066

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 91, Issue 3 , Pages 698-704 , March 2009

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