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Ho, C., Zacharin, M. Fertility preservation in an adolescent boy: inducing puberty and spermatogenesis prior to elective, non-urgent bone marrow transplantation. Bone Marrow Transplant 52, 792–793 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/bmt.2017.6
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