Clinical experiences of microsurgical side-to-end epididymovasostomy for epididymal obstruction

International Journal of Urology

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 271-274

  Eguchi, Jiro ^a   Nomata, Koichiro ^a   Hirose, Takeshi ^a   Nishimura, Naoki ^a   Igawa, Tsukasa ^a   Kanetake, Hiroshi ^a   Saito, Yutaka ^a   Higami, Yoshikazu ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Epididymovasostomy; Male infertility; Microsurgery; Obstructive azoospermia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; END TO SIDE ANASTOMOSIS; EPIDIDYMIS DISEASE; HUMAN; MALE; OBSTRUCTION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; PREGNANCY; RECTUM; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TESTICULAR DISEASES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASOVASOSTOMY;

EID: 0032935087     PISSN: 09198172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-2042.1999.00052.x     Document Type: Article

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