Status of Semen Analysis-comment on "A Survey on the Status of Semen Analysis in 118 Laboratories in China" by Jin-Chun Lu Et Al. in Asian Journal of Andrology

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Journal Asian J Androl

Specialty Urology

Date 2010 Jan 30

PMID 20111091

Citations 2

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Hugh William Gordon Baker

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