Undescended testes: A consensus on management

European Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 159, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2008, Pages

  Martin Ritzen E ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; GONADORELIN; TESTOSTERONE;

APOPTOSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRYPTORCHISM; GERM CELL; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; ORCHIDOPEXY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SPERMATOGENESIS; ANIMAL; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; ENDOCRINE SURGERY; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; NEWBORN; RECURRENT DISEASE; TIME;

ANIMALS; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CRYPTORCHIDISM; ENDOCRINE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; RECURRENCE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 73449106118     PISSN: 08044643     EISSN: 1479683X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/EJE-08-0181     Document Type: Conference Paper

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