Improvement in the fertility rate after placement of microsurgical shunts in men with recurrent varicocele

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1527-1531

  Flati, Giancarlo ^a   Porowska, Barbara ^a   Flati, Donato ^a   Veltri, Salvatore ^a   Sportelli, Giuseppe ^a   Carboni, Manlio ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

infertility; microsurgical shunts; Recurrent varicocele

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC VEIN; INFERTILITY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; MICROSURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; SHUNTING; SPERMATIC VEIN; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASOUND; VARICOCELE; VARICOSIS; VEIN; VEIN BLOOD FLOW; VEIN OCCLUSION;

EID: 10044231667     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2004.04.063     Document Type: Article

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