Vasal obstruction after hernioplasty: The importance of surgical strategy in preventing azoospermia [3]

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 244, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 160-

  Valenti, Gabriele ^a   Baldassarre, Emanuele ^a  

^a FATEBENEFRATELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYPROPYLENE;

AZOOSPERMIA; CREMASTER MUSCLE; CRYOPRESERVATION; FASCIA; FIBROSIS; HERNIOPLASTY; INGUINAL HERNIA; INGUINAL REGION; LETTER; MALE INFERTILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERM; SPERMATIC CORD; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSVERSE FASCIA; HUMAN; MALE; NOTE; OLIGOSPERMIA; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; VAS DEFERENS;

FIBROSIS; HERNIA, INGUINAL; HUMANS; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURGICAL MESH; VAS DEFERENS;

EID: 33747515307     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sla.0000226469.97993.02     Document Type: Letter

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