Recent Advances in External Genitalia

Pediatric Clinics of North America

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 449-464

  MacLellan, Dawn L ^a   Diamond, David A ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE;

ANUS ATRESIA; BLADDER EXSTROPHY; CIRCUMCISION; CRYPTORCHISM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPISPADIAS; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HERMAPHRODITISM; HUMAN; HYDROCELE; HYPOSPADIAS; HYPOXIA; INCIDENCE; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; ORCHIDOPEXY; PENIS AMPUTATION; PHIMOSIS; PREPUCE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; URETHRA FISTULA; VARICOCELE;

BLADDER EXSTROPHY; CRYPTORCHIDISM; EPISPADIAS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOSPADIAS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION DISORDERS; UROGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; VARICOCELE;

EID: 33646752326     PISSN: 00313955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pcl.2006.02.001     Document Type: Review

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