A relationship of sex hormone levels and erectile dysfunction: Which tests should be done routinely?

Yonsei Medical Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1015-1019

  Müezzinoǧlu, Talha ^a   Gümüş, Bilal ^a   Temeltaş, Gökhan ^a   An, Zeki ^a   Büyüksu, Coşkun ^a  

^a CELAL BAYAR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Diagnostic tests; Erectile dysfunction; Hormones; Measurement and libido

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROLACTIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LIBIDO DISORDER; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; SEX HORMONE DETERMINATION; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURE; UROLOGIC EXAMINATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; LIBIDO; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROLACTIN; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 38049181182     PISSN: 05135796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3349/ymj.2007.48.6.1015     Document Type: Article

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