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Triorchidism with torsion

K Kumar1, D Das, Shivaraj

  • 1Department of Radio Diagnosis, Sri Devaraj Urs Medical College, Kolar, Karnataka, India.

Annals of Medical and Health Sciences Research
|February 27, 2013
PubMed

Keywords:
Magnetic resonance imagingPolyorchidismSonographyTorsionTriorchidism

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