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Editorial
. 2020 Apr;125(4):477-478.
doi: 10.1111/bju.15023.

Fake news about benign prostatic hyperplasia on YouTube

Stacy Loeb  1
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Editorial

Fake news about benign prostatic hyperplasia on YouTube

Stacy Loeb. BJU Int. 2020 Apr.
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