Why early surgery may not be enough: The search for new therapeutic strategies in cryptorchidism

Klinische Padiatrie

Volumn 220, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 279-280

  Hauffa, Berthold P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN AGONIST; GONADOTROPIN;

CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CRYPTORCHISM; EARLY INTERVENTION; HUMAN; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NOTE; ORCHIDOPEXY; SEXUAL MATURATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMIOGRAM; TESTIS BIOPSY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CRYPTORCHIDISM; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; GONADOTROPINS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERM COUNT; SPERMATOGONIA; TESTIS;

EID: 52249102628     PISSN: 03008630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0028-1085431     Document Type: Note

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