Fertility and Sterility
Volume 91, Issue 5 , Pages 1809-1811 , May 2009

Impact of a second semen analysis on a treatment decision making in the infertile man with varicocele

Received 10 December 2007 ,Revised 29 January 2008 ,Accepted 29 January 2008.

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 A.M. has nothing to disclose. S.M. has nothing to disclose. D.S. has nothing to disclose. Y.S. has nothing to disclose.

PII: S0015-0282(08)00223-9

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.01.100

Fertility and Sterility
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