Varicocele and antisperm antibody: Fact or fiction?

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 44-47

  Djaladat, Hooman ^a   Mehrsai, Abdolrasol ^b   Rezazade, Modjtaba ^b   Djaladat, Yasaman ^b   Pourmand, Gholamreza ^b  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Antibody; Infertility; Varicocele

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN A ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; SPERM ANTIBODY; ANTIIDIOTYPIC ANTIBODY; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ADULT; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INGUINAL REGION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MICROSURGERY; MORPHOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VARICOCELE; VARICOCELECTOMY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOLLOW UP; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM SURGERY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; SPERMATOZOON;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, ANTI-IDIOTYPIC; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERMATOZOA; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MALE; VARICOCELE;

EID: 33644868908     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.smj.0000197036.08282.70     Document Type: Article

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