Missed testis on laparoscopy despite blind-ending vessels and closed processus vaginalis

Urology

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2005, Pages

  Kim, Christina ^a,b   Bennett, Nelson ^a   Docimo, Steven G ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLOSED PROCESSUS VAGINALIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HUMAN; INFANT; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; NEPHRECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TESTIS; ULTRASOUND; VASCULARIZATION;

CRYPTORCHIDISM; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; INFANT; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MULTICYSTIC DYSPLASTIC KIDNEY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; TESTIS; VAS DEFERENS;

EID: 20444506125     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2004.12.030     Document Type: Article

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