Paternity after varicocelectomy: Preoperative sonographic parameters of success

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 593-599

  Donkol, Ragab H ^a,b   Salem, Tarek ^b  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b Gulf Specialist Hospital   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Paternity rate; Scrotal color Doppler sonography; Scrotal sonography; Varicocele; Varicocelectomy

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CARDIOLOGY; DIAGNOSIS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; SURGERY;

PATERNITY; VARICOCELECTOMY;

ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHENOSPERMIA; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; DEVICE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; OLIGOSPERMIA; PATERNITY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; TESTIS SIZE; VARICOCELE; VEIN DILATATION;

EID: 34247574900     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2007.26.5.593     Document Type: Article

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