Testicular torsion and risk factors for orchiectomy

Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

Volumn 159, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1167-1171

  Mansbach, Jonathan M ^a   Forbes, Peter ^a   Peters, Craig ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORCHIECTOMY; POPULATION; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RISK FACTOR; TESTIS TORSION; TESTIS TUMOR; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SPERMATIC CORD TORSION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 28744450891     PISSN: 10724710     EISSN: 10724710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpedi.159.12.1167     Document Type: Article

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