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Pharmacology and clinical use of antiandrogens: A short review

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This article contains parts of a lecture given as Guest Speaker at a Joint Meeting of the Irish endocrine Society and Endocrine Section of the Royal society of Medicine, held in Dublin, April 2, 1981.

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Neumann, F. Pharmacology and clinical use of antiandrogens: A short review. Ir J Med Sci 151, 61–70 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02940148

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