Seminoma in a 31-year-old patient on long-term growth hormone therapy

Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes

Volumn 107, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 386-388

  Ochsenkuhn R ^a   Pfaffle R ^b   Nieschlag, E ^a  

^a INST OF REPRO MED OF THE UNIV   (Germany)

^b Pe diatric Dept of the University   (Germany)

Author keywords

Growth hormone; Growth hormone substitution; Seminoma; Tumor

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; RECOMBINANT GROWTH HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE ENANTATE; THYROID HORMONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CRYPTORCHISM; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMINOMA; TESTIS TUMOR;

EID: 0344172526     PISSN: 09477349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1212130     Document Type: Article

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