Varicocele in the adolescent

Pediatric Endocrinology Reviews

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 468-470

  De Sanctis, Viricenzo ^a   Ficarra, Vincenzo ^b   Mazzoni, Guglielmo ^c   Fiscina, Bernadette ^d   Raiola, Giuseppe ^e   Castellano, German ^f   Beniamin, Francesco ^g   Bertelloni, Silvano ^g   Chiavetta, Salvatore ^g   De Simone, Michele ^g   Garofalo, Piernicola ^g   Govoni, Maria Rita ^g   Mangiagli, Antonino ^g   Pintor, Carlo ^g   Ranieri, Luigi ^g   Ruggiero, Leopoldo ^g   Salerno, Domenico ^g   Serra, Laura ^g  

^a S ANNA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c Clinica Salvator Mundi   (Italy)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e PUGLIESE CIACCIO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^f Center of the Health La Vega Zapaton   (Spain)

^g NONE

Author keywords

Adolescent; Spermatogenesis; Statement; Varicocele

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; INHIBIN B; TESTOSTERONE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HEAT EXCHANGE; HUMAN; SEMINAL PLASMA; TESTIS FUNCTION; VARICOCELE; VEIN DILATATION; ADOLESCENT; MALE; SPERMATIC CORD; TESTIS; VEIN;

ADOLESCENT; HUMANS; MALE; SPERMATIC CORD; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE; VARICOCELE; VEINS;

EID: 35148818403     PISSN: 15654753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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