Fertility and Sterility
Volume 90, Issue 3 , Pages 486-487 , September 2008

Age-related fertility decline: a committee opinion

  • The Committee on Gynecologic Practice of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and The Practice Committee of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine

Received 15 July 2008 ,Accepted 5 August 2008.

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 Correspondence: Practice Committee, American Society for Reproductive Medicine, 1209 Montgomery Highway, Birmingham, AL 35216.

 No reprints will be available.

PII: S0015-0282(08)03303-7

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.08.006

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 90, Issue 3 , Pages 486-487 , September 2008

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