Regarding: A cohort study of systemic and local complications following implantation of testicular prostheses

Annals of Epidemiology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 73-77

  Herrinton, Lisa J ^a   Brox, Timothy ^b   Greenland, Sander ^c   Finkle, William D ^d   Cattolica, Eugene ^b   Shoor, Stanford ^b  

^a DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^b KAISER PERMANENTE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Consolidated Research ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDEMA; EPIDIDYMITIS; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORCHITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATITIS; PROSTHESIS; TESTIS; TESTIS ATROPHY; TESTIS TORSION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VARICOSIS; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORCHIECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RISK FACTORS; TESTIS;

EID: 0037237490     PISSN: 10472797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1047-2797(02)00270-3     Document Type: Article

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