Reassessing the value of varicocelectomy as a treatment for male subfertility with a new meta-analysis

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1710-

  Pasqualotto, Fabio Firmbach ^a   Pasqualotto, Eleonora Bedin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAXIAS DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE INFERTILITY; MICROSURGERY; OLIGOSPERMIA; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICOCELE; VARICOCELECTOMY;

HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; VARICOCELE;

EID: 36749040905     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.09.057     Document Type: Letter

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