The adolescent varicocele: Current issues

Current Urology Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 100-103

  Glassberg, Kenneth I ^a  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE COURSE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; NOTE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TESTIS ATROPHY; VARICOCELE; VARICOCELECTOMY; ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; HOSPITALIZATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROSURGERY; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT;

SCLEROSING AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MICROSURGERY; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCLEROSING SOLUTIONS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VARICOCELE;

EID: 33847709151     PISSN: 15272737     EISSN: 15346285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11934-007-0057-x     Document Type: Note

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