Spermatogenesis After 1-Stage Fowler-Stephens Orchiopexy in Experimental Cryptorchid Rat Model

Journal of Urology

Volumn 183, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2380-2384

  Kamisawa, Hideyuki ^a   Kojima, Yoshiyuki ^a   Mizuno, Kentaro ^a   Imura, Makoto ^a   Kohri, Kenjiro ^a   Hayashi, Yuraro ^a  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

cryptorchidism; models, animal; orchiopexy; spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTORCHISM; EPIDIDYMIS; FOWLER STEPHEN ORCHIOPEXY; NONHUMAN; ORCHIDOPEXY; ORGAN SIZE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE DIAMETER; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS BLOOD FLOW; TESTIS SIZE; VALIDITY;

ANIMALS; CRYPTORCHIDISM; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPERMATOGENESIS; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MALE;

EID: 77951879214     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2010.02.2387     Document Type: Article

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