Clinical and genetic features of patients with congenital unilateral absence of the vas deferens

Urology

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1073-1076

  Kolettis, Peter N ^a   Sandlow, Jay I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECHOGRAPHY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGING; KIDNEY AGENESIS; KIDNEY MALFORMATION; KIDNEY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; MALE INFERTILITY; PELVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; RETROPERITONEUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; UROLOGIC EXAMINATION; VAS DEFERENS;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ADULT; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; OLIGOSPERMIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VAS DEFERENS;

EID: 0036897912     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-4295(02)01973-8     Document Type: Article

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