Fertility and Sterility
Volume 92, Issue 1 , Pages 392.e13-392.e15 , July 2009

Ovarian ectopic pregnancy: diagnosis, treatment, correlation to Carnegie stage 16 and review based on a clinical case

Received 10 December 2008 ,Revised 5 April 2009 ,Accepted 7 April 2009.

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 B.K. has nothing to disclose. E.K. has nothing to disclose. E.G. has nothing to disclose. I.J.-B. has nothing to disclose. E.-F.S. has nothing to disclose. D.W. has nothing to disclose. T.K.R. has nothing to disclose.

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doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.04.014

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