Gonadal status in male survivors following childhood brain tumors

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 2446-2452

  Schmiegelow, Marianne ^a,b   Lassen, Søren ^b   Poulsen, Hans Skovgaard ^b   Schmiegelow, Kjeld ^a   Hertz, Henrik ^a   Andersson, Anna Maria ^a   Skakkebæk, Niels E ^a   Müller, Jørn ^a  

^a Juliane Marie Centre   (Denmark)

^b Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; HORMONE BINDING PROTEIN; INHIBIN B; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GONAD FUNCTION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; HYPOGONADISM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE EPITHELIUM; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GENITALIA, MALE; HUMANS; INHIBINS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PROSTATIC SECRETORY PROTEINS; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0034971839     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.86.6.2446     Document Type: Article

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