Management of boys with nonpalpable undescended testis

Nature Clinical Practice Urology

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 252-260

  Esposito, Ciro ^a   Caldamone, Anthony A ^b   Settimi, Alessandro ^a   El Ghoneimi, Alaa ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; GONADORELIN; UROFOLLITROPIN;

CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CRYPTORCHISM; ECHOGRAPHY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FOLLOW UP; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE INFERTILITY; MICROVASCULAR SURGERY; MONOTHERAPY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORCHIDOPEXY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; STANDARDIZATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ALGORITHMS; CHILD; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CRYPTORCHIDISM; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MALE;

EID: 43449138837     PISSN: 17434270     EISSN: 17434289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpuro1102     Document Type: Review

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