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1Department of Immunoneuroendocrinology, Institute of Biology and Immunology of Reproduction, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Urologia Internationalis
|July 21, 2001
Abstract:
A diagnostic stimulation test with hCG (Pregnyl) was performed in clinically healthy boys and was used to diagnose cases of bilateral abdominal cryptorchidism. In clinical andrology, this test may be applied as a noninvasive and highly sensitive method.
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