Fertility and Sterility
Volume 93, Issue 6 , Pages 1884-1886 , April 2010

Effect of high environmental temperature on semen parameters among fertile men

Received 7 December 2008 ,Accepted 16 December 2008.

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 M.N.M. has nothing to disclose. F.B.A. has nothing to disclose. I.M.F. has nothing to disclose. T.M. has nothing to disclose.

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doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.12.065

Fertility and Sterility
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