Sarcoidosis with bilateral epididymal and testicular lesions

Internal Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 92-97

  Handa, Tomohiro ^a   Nagai, Sonoko ^a   Hamada, Kunio ^a   Ito, Isao ^a   Hoshino, Yuma ^a   Shigematsu, Michio ^a   Izumi, Takateru ^b   Mishima, Michiaki ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Central Clinic in Kyoto   (Japan)

Author keywords

Epididymitis; Hypercalcemia; MRI

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE; STEROID;

ADULT; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDIDYMIS DISEASE; EYE INJURY; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERCALCEMIA; LUNG INJURY; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; SARCOIDOSIS; STOMACH PAIN; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TESTIS DISEASE;

EID: 0037288770     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.42.92     Document Type: Article

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