How does age affect fertility?

Contemporary Ob/Gyn

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 37-46

  Fong, Shirley ^a   McGovern, Peter ^a  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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