The importance of mini-puberty for fertility in cryptorchidism

Journal of Urology

Volumn 174, Issue 4 II, 2005, Pages 1536-1539

  Hadziselimovic, Faruk ^a   Zivkovic, Dragana ^a   Bica, Domingos T G ^b   Emmons, Lyman R ^a   Diamond, David A ^a   Kogan, Stanley J ^a   Cain, Mark ^a  

^a Kindertagesklinik ^*

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cryptorchidism; Fertility; Humans; Spermatogonia; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; TESTOSTERONE;

CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRYPTORCHISM; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANCY; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MINI PUBERTY; ORCHIDOPEXY; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; SPERMATOGONIUM; TESTIS DESCENT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TESTOSTERONE RELEASE;

EID: 24944462797     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ju.0000181506.97839.b0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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