Male circumcision

Male Sexual Dysfunction: Pathophysiology and Treatment

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 95-107

  Schoen, Edgar J ^a  

^a KAISER PERMANENTE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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