An implantable ligation device that achieves male sterilization without cutting the vas deferens

Urology

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 807-811

  Kirby, David ^a   Utz, William J ^b   Parks, Patrick J ^c  

^a Mariner Clinic   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c Histopathometrics LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIAL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; GRANULOMA; HEMATOMA; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMPLANT; INFECTION RISK; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIGATION; MALE; MALE STERILIZATION; OPERATION DURATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECANALIZATION; RISK REDUCTION; STANDARD; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL RISK; VAS DEFERENS; VASECTOMY;

ADULT; HUMANS; LIGATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; STERILIZATION, REPRODUCTIVE; VAS DEFERENS;

EID: 33645964614     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2005.10.051     Document Type: Article

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