Measurement of testicular volume in smaller testes: How accurate is the conventional orchidometer?

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 685-689

  Lin, Chih Chieh ^a,b   Huang, William J S ^a,b   Chen, Kuang Kuo ^a,b  

^a TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Equation; Orchidometry; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; MALE; MEASUREMENT; ORCHIDOMETRY; ORCHIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TESTIS SIZE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTHROPOMETRY; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; ORGAN SIZE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; TESTIS;

EID: 71949083550     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2164/jandrol.108.006460     Document Type: Article

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