The Influence of Left Renal Vein Entrapment on Outcome after Surgical Varicocele Repair: A Color Doppler Sonographic Demonstration

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 595-601

  Pallwein, Leo ^a   Pinggera, Germar ^a   Schuster, Antonius H ^a   Klauser, Andrea ^a   Weirich, Harald G ^a   Recheis, Wolfgang ^a   Herwig, Ralf ^a   Halpern, Ethan J ^b   Bartsch, Georg ^a   Zur Nedden, Dieter ^a   Frauscher, Ferdinand ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Doppler sonography; Nutcracker phenomenon; Renal vein entrapment; Varicocele

Indexed keywords

COLOR; DOPPLER EFFECT; PATIENT MONITORING; SURGERY; ULTRASONIC EFFECTS;

COLOR DOPPLER SONOGRAPHY; RENAL VEIN ENTRAPMENT; VENOUS RETROGRADE FLOW;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ADULT; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KIDNEY VEIN; KIDNEY VEIN ENTRAPMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY; SURGICAL APPROACH; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICOCELE; VEIN DIAMETER; VEIN DISEASE; VENOUS RETURN;

EID: 2342503287     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2004.23.5.595     Document Type: Article

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