An experimental study of the effect of two distinct surgical techniques of orchiopexy on spermatogenesis and testicular damage in cryptorchid testes

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 749-755

  Lotan, Gad ^a   Golan, Rachel ^b   Efrati, Yigal ^a   Vigodner, Margarita ^b   Lewin, Lawrence M ^b   Shochat, Lea ^b   Klin, Baruch ^a  

^a ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cryptorchidism; Dartos pouch; Flow cytometry; Orchiopexy; Testicular function; Undescended testis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL FRACTIONATION; CLASSIC TRANSFIXATION ORCHIOPEXY; CRYPTORCHISM; DIPLOIDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HAPLOIDY; HISTOGRAM; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORCHIDOPEXY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TESTIS FUNCTION; TESTIS INJURY; TESTIS WEIGHT; TETRAPLOIDY; TRUE DARTOS POUCH ORCHIOPEXY;

ANIMALS; CRICETINAE; CRYPTORCHIDISM; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MALE;

EID: 24944462811     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2005.02.039     Document Type: Article

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