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Comment
. 2017 Sep;6(Suppl 4):S566-S569.
doi: 10.21037/tau.2017.03.70.

Clinical scenarios of unexplained sperm DNA fragmentation and their management

Jan Tesarik  1 , Maribel Galán-Lázaro  1
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Clinical scenarios of unexplained sperm DNA fragmentation and their management

Jan Tesarik et al. Transl Androl Urol. 2017 Sep.
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Conflicts of Interest: The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

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Decision-making scheme showing several treatment options for cases with sperm DNA fragmentation (SDF) in the framework of different clinical scenarios, beginning with noninvasive ones (green), passing through surgical ones (yellow) and terminating by the recourse to donor sperm (red).
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