Varicocele - The most common cause of male factor infertility?

Human Reproduction Update

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 53-58

  Redmon, J Bruce ^a,b   Carey, Patrick ^a   Pryor, Jon L ^a  

^a Departments of Urologic Surgery   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Male factor infertility; Subfertility; Varicocele

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; PARAMETER; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERM; SUBFERTILITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICOCELE;

HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; TESTIS; VARICOCELE;

EID: 0036168905     PISSN: 13554786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humupd/8.1.53     Document Type: Article

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