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01-03-2015 | Letter to the editor

Is it time to consider patients suffering from endometriosis-related infertility as “novel candidates” for targeted peri-conceptional D-chiro inositol supplementation? Hypothesis, rationale and some considerations

Authors: Amerigo Vitagliano, Marco Noventa, Salvatore Gizzo

Published in: Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics | Issue 3/2015

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Title: Is it time to consider patients suffering from endometriosis-related infertility as “novel candidates” for targeted peri-conceptional D-chiro inositol supplementation? Hypothesis, rationale and some considerations
Authors: Amerigo Vitagliano
Marco Noventa
Salvatore Gizzo
Publication date: 01-03-2015
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics / Issue 3/2015
Print ISSN: 1058-0468
Electronic ISSN: 1573-7330
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10815-014-0412-z

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