Testosterone and erection

Testosterone: Action, Deficiency, Substitution, Fourth Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 251-267

  Maggi, Mario ^a   Behre, Hermann M ^b  

^a Dipartimento di Fisiopatologia Clinica   (Italy)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139003353.013     Document Type: Chapter

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