Best Practice & Research Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
Volume 21, Issue 3 , Pages 367-379 , September 2007

Imaging and examination strategies of normal male and female sex development and anatomy

  • Lutz Wünsch (Consultant Paediatric Surgeon and Urologist)

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doi: 10.1016/j.beem.2007.06.002

Best Practice & Research Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
Volume 21, Issue 3 , Pages 367-379 , September 2007

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