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Fertility preservation in an adolescent boy: inducing puberty and spermatogenesis prior to elective, non-urgent bone marrow transplantation

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  1. Department of Endocrinology, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Royal Children’s Hospital, Parkville, VIC, Australia

    C Ho & M Zacharin

  2. Khoo Teck Puat-National University Children’s Medical Institute, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore,

    C Ho

  3. Department of Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore,

    C Ho

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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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