Pediatric Varicocele Embolization

Techniques in Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 169-175

  Lord, David J E ^a,b   Burrows, Patricia E ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; SCLEROSING AGENT; TETRADECYL SULFATE SODIUM;

ADOLESCENT; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INGUINAL REGION; KIDNEY VEIN; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; PAIN; PHLEBITIS; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PULMONARY ARTERY; RECANALIZATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; SPERMATIC VEIN; SPLANCHNIC BLOOD FLOW; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TESTIS DISEASE; TESTIS FUNCTION; TESTIS SIZE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICOCELE; VEIN OCCLUSION; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 0842281755     PISSN: 10892516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.tvir.2003.11.001     Document Type: Article

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