Point: Testosterone therapy in older men: The next big thing in medicine?

Clinical Geriatrics

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 22-27

  Morgentaler, Abraham ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Men's Health Boston ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; TESTOSTERONE;

ACNE; AGED; ANDROGEN DEFICIENCY; ANDROGEN THERAPY; ANGINA PECTORIS; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURGERY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CASE REPORT; DIABETES MELLITUS; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; ERYTHROCYTOSIS; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; GYNECOMASTIA; HUMAN; LIBIDO DISORDER; LIVER TOXICITY; MALE; NEPHROTOXICITY; OSTEOPOROSIS; PENIS PROSTHESIS; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; REVIEW; TESTIS ATROPHY;

EID: 69549107453     PISSN: 10951598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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