Giant malignant fibrous histiocytoma of the testis/spermatic cord: Psychologic and possible etiologic complications of unethical Nazi medical experimentation

Urology

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 939-943

  Staiman, Victoria R ^b   O'Toole, Kathleen M ^b   Rubin, Mark A ^b   Lowe, Franklin C ^a  

^a ST LUKE S ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRIME; ECHOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MALIGNANT FIBROUS HISTIOCYTOMA; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORCHIECTOMY; PATIENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISON; SPERMATIC CORD; TESTIS TUMOR;

BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

AGED; CONCENTRATION CAMPS; HISTIOCYTOMA, BENIGN FIBROUS; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMANS; MALE; POLAND; POLITICAL SYSTEMS; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0030482378     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-4295(96)00319-6     Document Type: Article

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