Increased prevalence of varicocele in patients with coronary artery ectasia

Coronary Artery Disease

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 261-264

  Yetkin, Ertan ^a   Kilic, Suleyman ^a   Acikgoz, Nusret ^a   Ergin, Huseyin ^b   Aksoy, Yuksel ^a   Sincer, Isa ^a   Aktürk, Erdal ^a   Beytur, Ali ^a   Sivri, Nasir ^a   Turhan, Hasan ^a  

^a INONU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b Ergani Government Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Coronary artery ectasia; Varicocele

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ADULT; ARTERY LESION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY ECTASIA; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ELASTIC FIBER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACIC AORTA; VARICOCELE; VENOUS CIRCULATION;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; VARICOCELE;

EID: 23044516564     PISSN: 09546928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019501-200508000-00001     Document Type: Article

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