Azoospermia in a patient receiving interferon alpha for a stage III melanoma [10]

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 389-390

  Longo, Isabel ^a   Sánchez Mateos, Paloma ^a   Lázaro, Pablo ^a   Longo, Natividad ^a  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; AZOOSPERMIA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG EFFECT; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMINAL PLASMA; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS FUNCTION;

ADULT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERFERON ALFA-2B; MALE; MELANOMA; NEOPLASM STAGING; OLIGOSPERMIA; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SPERM COUNT;

EID: 0036401697     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/000155502320624212     Document Type: Letter

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