Paternity after adolescent varicocele repair

Pediatrics

Volumn 114, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1631-1633

  Salzhauer, Elan W ^a   Sokol, Alex ^a   Glassberg, Kenneth I ^b,c  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

^c NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Fertility; Paternity; Varicocele

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATHER; HUMAN; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MARRIAGE; MEDICAL RECORD; PARAMETER; PATERNITY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SAMPLE SIZE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TESTIS SIZE; TREATMENT INDICATION; VARICOCELE; VARICOCELECTOMY; ADOLESCENT; FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY;

ADOLESCENT; FERTILITY; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; PATERNITY; VARICOCELE;

EID: 16644401252     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 00314005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2003-0625-F     Document Type: Article

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