Fertility and Sterility
Volume 89, Issue 2 , Pages 395-397 , February 2008

Site of semen collection and its effect on semen analysis parameters

  • Rashmi Shetty Licht, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Rashmi Shetty Licht, M.D., Department of Urology, Brown Medical School, 2 Dudley Street, Rhode Island Hospital, Suite 174, Providence, Rhode Island 02906.
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  • LiAnn Handel, M.D.
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  • Mark Sigman, M.D.

Received 10 July 2006 ,Revised 21 February 2007 ,Accepted 21 February 2007.

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PII: S0015-0282(07)00503-1

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.02.033

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 89, Issue 2 , Pages 395-397 , February 2008

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