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. 2020 Aug:142:42.
doi: 10.1016/j.urology.2020.04.069. Epub 2020 Apr 25.

Rising Concern on Damaged Testis of COVID-19 Patients

Fangping Chen  1 , Didong Lou  2
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Rising Concern on Damaged Testis of COVID-19 Patients

Fangping Chen et al. Urology. 2020 Aug.
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