Imaging and examination strategies of normal male and female sex development and anatomy

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 367-379

  Wünsch, Lutz ^a   Schober, Justine M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b Hamot Medical Centre   (United States)

Author keywords

fallopian tube; gonadal development; imaging of genital organs; imaging of testis

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; GENITAL SYSTEM; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MALE; PHENOTYPE; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROSTATE; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; URETHRA; UROGENITAL SYSTEM;

DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX DETERMINATION (ANALYSIS); SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; TECHNOLOGY, MEDICAL; UROGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; UROGENITAL SYSTEM;

EID: 34548650531     PISSN: 1521690X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beem.2007.06.002     Document Type: Review

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