Longitudinal Study of Semen Quality in Adolescents with Varicocele: To Treat or Not?

Urology

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 989-993

  Zampieri, Nicola ^a,b   Corroppolo, Michele ^a,b   Zuin, Veronica ^a,b   Cervellione, Raimondo Maximillian ^c   Ottolenghi, Alberto ^a,b   Camoglio, Francesco Saverio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b GB Rossi Hospital   (Italy)

^c MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SCROTAL PAIN; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM; SPERMIOGRAM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TESTIS DISEASE; UROLOGIC SURGERY; VARICOCELE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; SEMEN; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; VARICOCELE;

EID: 36549080108     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2007.07.061     Document Type: Article

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