Androgen Deficiency Symptoms in Testicular Cancer Survivors Are Associated With Sexual Problems but Not With Serum Testosterone or Therapy

Urology

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 825-829

  Lackner, Jakob E ^a   Koller, Anke ^a   Schatzl, Georg ^a   Marberger, Michael ^a   Kratzik, Christian ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING MALES SYMPTOMS SCALE; ANDROGEN DEFICIENCY; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVOR; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; HUMAN; HYPOGONADISM; INTERNATIONAL INDEX OF ERECTILE FUNCTION 15; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORGASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SEXUAL SATISFACTION; TESTIS CANCER; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; ANDROGENS; DEFICIENCY DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; SEMINOMA; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SURVIVORS; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 70349469712     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2009.03.051     Document Type: Article

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