Adolescent varicocele: Association with somatometric parameters

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 114-117

  Prabakaran, Sushil ^a   Kumanov, Philip ^b   Tomova, Analia ^b   Hubaveshki, Stanislav ^b   Agarwal, Ashok ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Penile length; Puberty; Testicular hypotrophy; Varicocele

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TESTIS SIZE; VARICOCELE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; CHILD; HUMANS; MALE; VARICOCELE;

EID: 33746925634     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000093902     Document Type: Article

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