Fertility and Sterility
Volume 89, Issue 2 , Pages 390-394 , February 2008

Ejaculatory duct obstruction caused by a right giant seminal vesicle with an ipsilateral upper urinary tract agenesia: an embryologic malformation

Received 12 November 2006 ,Revised 3 March 2007 ,Accepted 5 March 2007.

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doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.03.009

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 89, Issue 2 , Pages 390-394 , February 2008

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