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Section 2 - Reproductive Biology and Cryobiology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2021

Jacques Donnez
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Catholic University of Louvain, Brussels
S. Samuel Kim
Affiliation:
University of Kansas School of Medicine
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Fertility Preservation
Principles and Practice
, pp. 35 - 66
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