Familial male pseudohermaphroditism due to 5-alpha-reductase deficiency in a Turkish Village
β Scribed by Suat Akgun; Norman H. Ertel; Julianne Imperato-Mcginley; Bekir Sitki Sayli; Cedric Shackleton
- Book ID
- 115680902
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1986
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 816 KB
- Volume
- 81
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1555-7162
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