Efficacy of selective venous catheterization in localizing a small androgen-producing tumor in ovary

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Nishiyama, Sachie ^a   Hirota, Yutaka ^a   Udagawa, Yasuhiro ^a   Kato, Ryoichi ^a   Hayakawa, Nobuki ^a   Tukada, Kazuhiko ^a  

^a FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Infertility; Leydig cell tumor; Selective venous sampling; Virilization

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROSTENEDIONE; PRASTERONE SULFATE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ALOPECIA; ANDROGEN SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HIRSUTISM; HUMAN; HYPERANDROGENISM; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LEYDIG CELL TUMOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY TUMOR; SCINTIGRAPHY; SECONDARY AMENORRHEA; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; ULTRASOUND; VEIN CATHETERIZATION; VIRILIZATION;

ADULT; ANDROGENS; CATHETERIZATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERANDROGENISM; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; LEYDIG CELL TUMOR; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY; PREGNANCY; TESTOSTERONE; VEINS;

EID: 39349083171     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: 16433750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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