Editorial: New scientific information related to varicoceles

Journal of Urology

Volumn 170, Issue 6 I, 2003, Pages 2371-2373

  Marmar, Joel ^a   Benoff, Susan ^b  

^a RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b N Shore Long Isl Jewish Res Inst ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DISSECTION; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MALE INFERTILITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; SURGICAL ANATOMY; VARICOCELE; CHEMISTRY; MALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; OLIGOSPERMIA; SPERM; UROLOGIC SURGERY;

FAS ANTIGEN; FAS LIGAND; FASLG PROTEIN, HUMAN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANTIGENS, CD95; APOPTOSIS; FAS LIGAND PROTEIN; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; OLIGOSPERMIA; SEMEN; SPERMATOGENESIS; UROGENITAL SURGICAL PROCEDURES; VARICOCELE;

EID: 1542705363     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ju.0000097520.28720.5c     Document Type: Editorial

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