Fertility and Sterility
Volume 91, Issue 5 , Pages 1926-1927 , May 2009

Menstrual bleeding from an endometriotic lesion

  • Richard O. Burney, M.D., M.Sc.

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Richard O. Burney, M.D., M.S.C., Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Stanford University, 300 Pasteur Drive, HH333, MC:5317, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA 94305 (FAX: 650-498-6175).
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  • Ruth B. Lathi, M.D.

Received 5 May 2007 ,Revised 28 July 2008 ,Accepted 25 August 2008.

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 R.O.B. has nothing to declare. R.B.L. has nothing to declare.

PII: S0015-0282(08)03834-X

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.08.125

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 91, Issue 5 , Pages 1926-1927 , May 2009

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