Testicular cancer and antecedent diseases

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 1987, Pages 97-103

  Swerdlow, A J ^a   Huttly, S ^b   Smith, P G ^b  

^a Director of Public Health   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS; CANCER RISK; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTORCHISM; DIAGNOSIS; ETIOLOGY; HUMAN; INGUINAL HERNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MENINGITIS; MUMPS; ORCHITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMINOMA; SMALL INTESTINE; TERATOMA; TESTIS CANCER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CRYPTORCHIDISM; DYSGERMINOMA; GENITAL DISEASES, MALE; HERNIA, INGUINAL; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY, IMMEDIATE; MALE; MENINGITIS; MIDDLE AGE; MUMPS; ORCHITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TERATOMA; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0023121806     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.1987.20     Document Type: Article

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