Fertility and Sterility
Volume 92, Issue 1 , Pages 393.e11-393.e14 , July 2009

Use of hormone suppression then oocyte freezing to preserve reproductive capability in an adolescent girl with ovarian luteinized thecoma associated with sclerosing peritonitis

  • Nicole Noyes, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • NYU Fertility Center, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York
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  • Rosanna C. Perretta, B.A.

      Affiliations

    • Stony Brook University School of Medicine, Stony Brook, New York, New York
    • ,
  • M. Elizabeth Fino, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • NYU Fertility Center, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: M. Elizabeth Fino, M.D., NYU School of Medicine, 660 First Avenue, Fifth Floor, New York, New York 10016 (FAX: 212-263-7853).
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  • Theodore Matulewicz, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune, New Jersey
    • ,
  • Richard Barakat, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases, New York, New York

Received 5 January 2009 ,Revised 23 January 2009 ,Accepted 26 January 2009.

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 N.N. has nothing to disclose. R.C.P. has nothing to disclose. M.E.F. has nothing to disclose. T.M. has nothing to disclose. R.B. has nothing to disclose.

PII: S0015-0282(09)00268-4

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.01.145

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 92, Issue 1 , Pages 393.e11-393.e14 , July 2009

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