Is it worthwhile to operate on subclinical right varicocele in patients with grade II-III varicocele in the left testicle?

Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 227-231

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAXIAS DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Infertility; Semen; Spermatozoa; Subclinical; Varicocele

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MALE; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; TESTIS FUNCTION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICOCELE;

ADULT; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE; VARICOCELE;

EID: 20844450741     PISSN: 10580468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10815-005-4926-2     Document Type: Article

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