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Primary infertility secondary to a hidden posterior urethral valve representing a diagnostic challenge in the fifth decade

Emad Rajih, Tareef Daqqaq, Abdulrahman Mojallid and Said Kattan
Saudi Medical Journal September 2020, 41 (9) 1011-1014; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2020.9.25229
Emad Rajih
From the Urology Department (Rajih); Radiology Department (Daqqaq), College of Medicine, Taibah University; from the Urology Department (Rajih), King Fahad General Hospitals, Madinah; and from the Urology Department (Kattan), King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Abdulrahman Mojallid
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Said Kattan
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Emad Rajih, Tareef Daqqaq, Abdulrahman Mojallid, Said Kattan
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