Fertility, sexuality and testicular adrenal rest tumors in adult males with congenital adrenal hyperplasia

European Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 166, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 441-449

  Falhammar, Henrik ^a   Nyström, Helena Filipsson ^b   Ekström, Urban ^a   Granberg, Seth ^a,c   Wedell, Anna ^a   Thorén, Marja ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c AKERSHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3(OR 17)BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; INHIBIN B; STEROID 21 MONOOXYGENASE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADRENAL CORTEX TUMOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYP21A2 GENE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; FERTILITY; GENE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; KARYOTYPE 46,XX; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALT WASTING; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL ASPECT; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; TESTIS SIZE; TESTIS TUMOR;

ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA, CONGENITAL; ADRENAL REST TUMOR; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTRIES; SEXUALITY;

EID: 84857985837     PISSN: 08044643     EISSN: 1479683X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/EJE-11-0828     Document Type: Article

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