Varicocele sclerotherapy improves serum inhibin B levels and seminal parameters

International Journal of Andrology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 531-536

  Di Bisceglie, Cataldo ^a,b   Bertagna, Angela ^b   Baldi, Matteo ^b   Lanfranco, Fabio ^b   Tagliabue, Milena ^b   Gazzera, Carlo ^c   Gandini, Giovanni ^c   Manieri, Chiara ^b  

^a Dipartimento di Medicina Interna   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Inhibin B; Male infertility; Sclerotherapy; Semen parameters; Varicocele

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; FOLLITROPIN; INHIBIN B; POLIDOCANOL; TESTOSTERONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; MALE; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SCLEROTHERAPY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATIC VEIN; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VARICOCELE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; HUMANS; INHIBINS; MALE; PHLEBOGRAPHY; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; SCLEROSING SOLUTIONS; SCLEROTHERAPY; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TESTOSTERONE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; VARICOCELE;

EID: 36249014890     PISSN: 01056263     EISSN: 13652605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2605.2007.00747.x     Document Type: Article

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