Cut-off Value of Testes Volume in Young Adults and Correlation Among Testes Volume, Body Mass Index, Hormonal Level, and Seminal Profiles

Urology

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1318-1323

  Bahk, Jong Y ^a   Jung, Jae H ^a   Jin, Lee M ^b   Min, Seung K ^b  

^a National Police Hospital   (South Korea)

^b Gyeongsang National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEX HORMONE DETERMINATION; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS SIZE;

ADULT; ANDROGENS; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY MASS INDEX; COHORT STUDIES; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; HORMONES; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PROBABILITY; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REFERENCE VALUES; SEMEN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952741448     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2009.12.007     Document Type: Article

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