Treatment of varicocele: A comparative study of conventional open surgery, percutaneous retrograde sclerotherapy, and laparoscopy

Urology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 294-300

  Abdulmaaboud, Magdy R ^b   Shokeir, Ahmed A ^a   Farage, Yasser ^b   El Rahman, Ashraf Abd ^b   El Rakhawy, Magdy M ^b   Mutabagani, Hamed ^b  

^a New Jeddah Clinic Hospital   (Saudi Arabia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCLEROTHERAPY; SPERMIOGRAM; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; UROLOGIC SURGERY; VARICOCELE;

HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; SCLEROTHERAPY; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; VARICOCELE;

EID: 0032145301     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-4295(98)00178-2     Document Type: Article

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