Successful outpatient management of the nonpalpable intra-abdominal testis with staged fowler-stephens orchiopexy

Journal of Urology

Volumn 172, Issue 6 I, 2004, Pages 2399-2401

  Dhanani, Nadeem N ^a   Cornelius, Dena ^a   Gunes, Ali ^a   Ritchey, Michael L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryptorchidism surgery; Testis

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTORCHISM; FOWLER STEPHENS ORCHIOPEXY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORCHIDOPEXY; OUTPATIENT CARE; PERITONEUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TESTIS ATROPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 8644255169     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ju.0000140989.49309.1e     Document Type: Article

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