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Surgery, endometriosis-related infertility and negative impact on ovarian reserve: “which came first, the hen or the egg?” An unresolved dilemma

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  1. Department of Woman and Child Health, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

    Salvatore Gizzo, Amerigo Vitagliano, Marco Noventa, Pietro Litta & Carlo Saccardi

  2. Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

    Michela Quaranta

  3. Dipartimento di Salute della Donna e del Bambino, U.O.C. di Ginecologia e Ostetricia, Via Giustiniani 3, 35128, Padua, Italy

    Salvatore Gizzo

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Gizzo, S., Vitagliano, A., Noventa, M. et al. Surgery, endometriosis-related infertility and negative impact on ovarian reserve: “which came first, the hen or the egg?” An unresolved dilemma. Arch Gynecol Obstet 292, 709–711 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00404-015-3792-0

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