Repeated intramuscular injections of testosterone undecanoate for substitution therapy in hypogonadal men

@article{Nieschlag1999RepeatedII,
  title={Repeated intramuscular injections of testosterone undecanoate for substitution therapy in hypogonadal men},
  author={Eberhard Nieschlag and Dorothee B{\"u}chter and Sigrid von Eckardstein and Katrin Abshagen and Manuela Simoni and Hermann M Behre},
  journal={Clinical Endocrinology},
  year={1999},
  volume={51}
}
To investigate the suitability of intramuscular testosterone undecanoate (TU) injections for substitution therapy in hypogonadal men. 
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