The andropause: Fact or fiction?

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 73, Issue 863, 1997, Pages 553-556

  Burns Cox, Nicholas ^a   Gingell, Clive ^a  

^a SOUTHMEAD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Andropause; Erectile dysfunction; Prostate cancer; Testosterone supplements

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; LIPID; MESTEROLONE; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE; TESTOSTERONE UNDECANOATE;

BONE METABOLISM; FIBRINOLYSIS; HEMATOPOIESIS; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PROSTATE CANCER; SENESCENCE; SHORT SURVEY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TRANSDERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0030880701     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.73.863.553     Document Type: Short Survey

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