Cranial attachment of the gubernaculum associated with undescended testes

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 652-655

  Abe, Takeshi ^a   Aoyama, Kohji ^a   Gotoh, Takafumi ^a   Akiyama, Takashi ^a   Iwamura, Yoshinobu ^a   Kumori, Kohji ^a  

^a National Hospital Organization   (Japan)

Author keywords

Elongated epididymis; gubernaculum; undescended testis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRYPTORCHISM; EPIDIDYMIS; HUMAN; MALE; MALE GENITAL TRACT MALFORMATION; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TESTIS DESCENT; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; VAS DEFERENS;

EID: 0029923729     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-3468(96)90667-3     Document Type: Article

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