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Sperm Freezing in Transsexual Women

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Dr. De Sutter is holder of a fundamental clinical research mandate by the Flemish Foundation of Scientific Research (FWO-Vlaanderen).

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  1. Department of Endocrinology, University Hospital Ghent, De Pintelaan 185, 9000, Ghent, Belgium

    Katrien Wierckx & Guy T’Sjoen

  2. Department of Gynecology, University Hospital Ghent, Ghent, Belgium

    Isabelle Stuyver, Steven Weyers & Petra De Sutter

  3. Cleveland Clinic Center for Reproductive Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Alaa Hamada & Ashok Agarwal

  4. Department of Sexology and Gender Problems, University Hospital Ghent, Ghent, Belgium

    Guy T’Sjoen

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Wierckx, K., Stuyver, I., Weyers, S. et al. Sperm Freezing in Transsexual Women. Arch Sex Behav 41, 1069–1071 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-012-0012-x

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