Publisher Correction: Investigation of the relationship between COVID-19 disease and semen parameters in idiopathic male infertility patients

M.B. Can Balcı, N. Can Çilesiz

Department of Urology, Taksim Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

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• Erratum

Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci 2023; 27 (1): 378-383–DOI: 10.26355/eurrev_202301_30891–PMID: 36647886, published online on January 13, 2023.

This erratum addresses errors in the reference list of the published PDF version. Due to an internal error during layout finalization, incorrect references from another article were inadvertently inserted into the final PDF.

The error was not detected by the authors prior to publication, and the PDF file was approved for publication.

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Investigation of the relationship between COVID-19 disease and semen parameters in idiopathic male infertility patients

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