Treatment of varicocele in the infertile male I: Results on seminal quality;Tratamiento del varicocele en el varón infértil I: resultados sobre la calidad seminal

Archivos Espanoles de Urologia

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 969-980

  Casamayor, Manuel Pamplona ^a   Ojeda, José Manuel Duarte ^a   Esnal, Roberto Villar ^a   Laguarta, M Angeles Bolea ^b   De La Cruz Bértolo, Javier ^a   González, Enrique Alvarez ^a   Antolin, Alfredo Rodríguez ^a   Galvis, Oscar Leiva ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO 12 DE OCTUBRE   (Spain)

^b Consejería de Sanidad y Consumo de la Comunidad ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

Endovascular radiological occlusion; Male infertility; Sperm count; Varicocelectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; VARICOCELE;

ADULT; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEMEN; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; VARICOCELE;

EID: 16644362356     PISSN: 00040614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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