Comparison of radionuclide scrotal blood-pool index versus gonadal venography in the diagnosis of varicocele

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1069-1074

  Paz, Adrian ^a   Melloul, Moshe ^a  

^a HASHARON HOSPITAL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Clinical and subclinical varicocele; Gonadal vanography; Scrotal blood pool index; Semen analysis

Indexed keywords

PERTECHNETIC ACID TC 99M;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PALPATION; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCROTUM; SEMEN ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VARICOCELE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ERYTHROCYTES; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALPATION; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SCROTUM; SODIUM PERTECHNETATE TC 99M; TESTIS; VARICOCELE;

EID: 0031811658     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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