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Section 4 - Fertility Preservation Strategies in the Male

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. 127 - 170
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