Semen profile, testicular volume, and hormonal levels in infertile patients with varicoceles compared with fertile men with and without varicoceles

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 74-77

  Pasqualotto, Fábio Firmbach ^a,b   Lucon, Antônio Marmo ^a   De Góes, Plínio Moreira ^b   Sobreiro, Bernardo Passos ^a   Hallak, Jorge ^a   Pasqualotto, Eleonora Bedin ^a,b   Arap, Sami ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAXIAS DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

hormones; infertility; semen; Testis; varicocele

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FERTILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEX HORMONE DETERMINATION; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TESTIS SIZE; VARICOCELE;

ADULT; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE; VARICOCELE;

EID: 11844306023     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2004.06.047     Document Type: Article

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