Fertility and Sterility
Volume 83, Issue 6 , Pages 1674-1679 , June 2005

Reproductive prognosis in male patients with azoospermia at the time of cancer diagnosis

Received 29 March 2004 ,Revised 16 February 2005 ,Accepted 16 February 2005.

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PII: S0015-0282(05)00532-7

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2005.02.010

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 83, Issue 6 , Pages 1674-1679 , June 2005

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