Significance of testicular microlithiasis

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 3-7

  Zastrow, Stefan ^a   Hakenberg, Oliver W ^a   Wirth, Manfred P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIFICATION; CRYPTORCHISM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; MALE INFERTILITY; MALE PSEUDOHERMAPHRODITISM; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MORPHOLOGY; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; ORCHITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCROTUM DISORDER; SELF EXAMINATION; SYMPTOM; TESTIS BIOPSY; TESTIS CANCER; TESTIS DISEASE; TESTIS MICROLITHIASIS; TESTIS TORSION; VARICOCELE;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFERTILITY, MALE; LITHIASIS; MALE; PREVALENCE; TESTICULAR DISEASES; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 22544448386     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000085918     Document Type: Review

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