Laparoscopy for impalpable testis: Classification-based management

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 449-454

  El Anany, F ^a   Gad El Moula, M ^a   Abdel Moneim, A ^a   Abdallah, A ^a   Takahashi, M ^b   Kanayama, H ^b   El Haggagy, A ^a  

^a Assiut University Faculty of Medicine   (Egypt)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fowler Stephens orchiopexy; Laparoscopic orchiopexy; Testicular scintigraphy; Undescended testis

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM 99M;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; CRYPTORCHISM; FOLLOW UP; FOWLER STEPHENS ORCHIDOPEXY; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUELLERIAN DUCT; ORCHIDOPEXY; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCROTUM; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAS DEFERENS;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRYPTORCHIDISM; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33847331159     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-006-9003-0     Document Type: Article

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