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Supposed pituitary-production of human chorionic Gonadotropin induced by androgen deprivation therapy

INTRODUCTION: The main cause of slightly elevated human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) after successful treatment of male germ cell tumors is considered to be pituitary-derived HCG. It is well known that pituitary-derived HCG is frequently detected in postmenopausal women. We evaluated the status of s...

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Autores principales: Yoshimura, Koji, Nakashima, Yoshiharu, Sugiyama, Kyohei, Kohei, Naoki, Takizawa, Akitoshi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Sociedade Brasileira de Urologia 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6442121/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29757577
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1677-5538.IBJU.2017.0654