Fertility and Sterility
Volume 93, Issue 3 , Pages 716-721 , February 2010

Pain and ovarian endometrioma recurrence after laparoscopic treatment of endometriosis: a long-term prospective study

Received 29 July 2008 ,Revised 6 October 2008 ,Accepted 9 October 2008.

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 M.G.P. has nothing to disclose. D.P. has nothing to disclose. A.F. has nothing to disclose. B.C. has nothing to disclose. F.B. has nothing to disclose. P.B. has nothing to disclose.

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doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.10.018

Fertility and Sterility
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