Great balls of fire and the vicious cycle: A study of the effects of cycling on male fertility

Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 211-213

  Southorn, Tom ^a,b  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY TEMPERATURE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CYCLING; EXERCISE; HUMAN; IMPOTENCE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; NERVE COMPRESSION; PUDENDAL NERVE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHORT SURVEY; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS CANCER; TESTIS INJURY; TESTIS TORSION;

BICYCLING; BODY TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; IMPOTENCE; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; SCROTUM; SPERMATIC CORD TORSION; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0036816850     PISSN: 14711893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1783/147118902101196621     Document Type: Short Survey

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