Subinguinal microsurgical varicocelectomy: Evaluation of the results

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 368-372

  Kumar, Rajeev ^a   Gupta, Narmada P ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Infertility, male; Microsurgery; Pregnancy; Varicocele; Varicocelectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MICROSURGICAL VARICOCELECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREGNANCY RATE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SAFETY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TESTIS ATROPHY; VARICOCELE;

ADULT; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INGUINAL CANAL; MALE; MICROSURGERY; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MALE; VARICOCELE;

EID: 0345059354     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000074087     Document Type: Article

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