Vasectomy reversal: Is the microscope really essential?

Scottish Medical Journal

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 18-20

  Gopi, Shyamala S ^a   Townell, N H ^a  

^a NINEWELLS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYPROPYLENE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE STERILIZATION REVERSAL; MICROSCOPE; MICROSURGERY; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREGNANCY RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; SURGEON; TREATMENT OUTCOME; FEMALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; VASOVASOSTOMY;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASOVASOSTOMY;

EID: 34347212557     PISSN: 00369330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/rsmsmj.52.2.18     Document Type: Article

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