Fertility and unilateral undescended testis in the rat model

Pediatric Surgery International

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 266-268

  Agarwala, S ^a   Mitra, D K ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Fertility; Rats; Unilateral undescended testis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTORCHISM; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; NONHUMAN; ORCHIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RAT;

EID: 0030005774     PISSN: 01790358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00178434     Document Type: Article

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