Does more than one biopsy of the contralateral testis in men with a germ cell tumor add value? Commentary

Nature Clinical Practice Urology

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 652-653

  Hoei Hansen, Christina E ^a   Rajpert De Meyts, Ewa ^a   Daugaard, Gedske ^a   Rorth, Mikael ^a   Jorgensen, Niels ^a   Skakkebaek, Niels E ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; CANCER RISK; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CRYPTORCHISM; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; GERM CELL TUMOR; GONADAL DYSGENESIS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MALE INFERTILITY; OLIGOSPERMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SERTOLI CELL; SHORT SURVEY; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS ATROPHY; TESTIS BIOPSY; TESTIS CANCER;

EID: 36949011025     PISSN: 17434270     EISSN: 17434289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpuro0964     Document Type: Short Survey

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