Fertility and Sterility
Volume 92, Issue 2 , Pages 828.e1-828.e2 , August 2009

Retrieval of immature oocytes after chemotherapy for Hodgkin's disease and prolonged ovarian down-regulation with gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist

Received 21 February 2009 ,Revised 10 April 2009 ,Accepted 27 April 2009.

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 F.A. has nothing to disclose. J.H. has nothing to disclose. T.C. has nothing to disclose. T.S. has nothing to disclose. N.M.-R. has nothing to disclose. B.A. has nothing to disclose. A.A. has nothing to disclose. D.B.-Y. has nothing to disclose.

PII: S0015-0282(09)01077-2

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.04.052

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 92, Issue 2 , Pages 828.e1-828.e2 , August 2009

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