Current status of cryptorchidism

Advances in Pediatrics

Volumn 51, Issue , 2004, Pages 351-377

  Leung, Alexander K C ^a   Robson, Wm Lane M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; BIRTH WEIGHT; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CRYPTORCHISM; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EMBRYOLOGY; FERTILITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONAL THERAPY; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; IMAGING; INCIDENCE; INFERTILITY; INFORMATION; INGUINAL HERNIA; INJURY; LABORATORY TEST; LAPAROSCOPY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; ORCHIDOPEXY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PSYCHOANALYSIS; REVIEW; SCROTUM; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TESTIS TUMOR; TORSION; CHILD; MALE; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

CHILD; CRYPTORCHIDISM; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 4644352653     PISSN: 00653101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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