Difference in prevalence of congenital cryptorchidism in infants between two Nordic countries

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Volumn 363, Issue 9417, 2004, Pages 1264-1269

  Boisen, K A ^a   Kaleva, M ^b   Main, K M ^a   Virtanen, H E ^b   Haavisto, A M ^a,b   Schmidt, I M ^a   Chellakooty, M ^a   Damgaard, I N ^a   Mau, C ^a   Reunanen, M ^b   Skakkebaek, N E ^a   Toppari, J ^a,b  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTORCHISM; DELIVERY; DENMARK; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FINLAND; GEOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; NEWBORN; PARITY; PRENATAL PERIOD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 11144353583     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(04)15998-9     Document Type: Article

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