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Oral testosterone undecanoate for the induction of puberty in anorchid boys
  1. HEINRICH SCHMIDT,
  2. DIETRICH KNORR,
  3. HANS PETER SCHWARZ
  1. University Children’s Hospital
  2. Lindwurmstrasse 4, D-80337
  3. Munich, Germany

    https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.78.4.395d

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      Editor,—Testosterone undecanoate, an orally active androgen, has been in clinical use for about 20 years.1Its efficacy for the acceleration of growth has been well documented in prepubertal and early pubertal boys.2 3 We wondered if it could be used for the induction of puberty in anorchia as preliminary data suggested.4

      Ten anorchid patients (bilateral …

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