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Robert E Reiter1, Benjamin Shurtleff
1RE Reiter is Professor of Urology in the Department of Urology and the Molecular Biology Institute, and B Shurtleff is a Resident in the Department of Urology, at the Geffen School of Medicine-UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Nature Clinical Practice. Urology
|February 14, 2006
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