IS HUMAN CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN USEFUL FOR IDENTIFYING AND TREATING NONPALPABLE TESTIS?
- 1 January 2001
- journal article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of Urology
- Vol. 165 (1) , 221-223
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00005392-200101000-00063
Abstract
Purpose: We evaluated the efficacy of human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) for identifying and treating nonpalpable testis. We then compared the cost-effectiveness of this approach to that of laparos...Keywords
This publication has 21 references indexed in Scilit:
- Gadolinium-infusion magnetic resonance angiogram: A new, noninvasive, and accurate method of preoperative localization of impalpable undescended testesJournal of Pediatric Surgery, 1998
- THE UNDESCENDED TESTISUrologic Clinics of North America, 1995
- Laparoscopic Evaluation of the Nonpalpable Testis: A Prospective Assessment of AccuracyJournal of Urology, 1994
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Localization of Undescended Abdominal TestesEuropean Urology, 1990
- Laparoscopy: Its Selected Use in Patients with Unilateral Nonpalpable Testis after Human Chorionic Gonadotropin StimulationJournal of Urology, 1989
- Surgical and Hormonal Therapy for Cryptorchidism: An OverviewHormone Research, 1988
- Elevation of Serum Gonadotropins Establishes the Diagnosis of Anorchism in Prepubertal Boys with Bilateral CryptorchidismJournal of Urology, 1986
- Comparison of computed tomography with high-resolution real-time ultrasound in the localization of the impalpable undescended testis.Radiology, 1983
- Effect of Gonadotropin in CryptorchismJournal of Urology, 1969
- The Descent of the TestisArchives of Disease in Childhood, 1964