Persistent and Recurrent Postsurgical Varicoceles: Venographic Anatomy and Treatment with N-butyl Cyanoacrylate Embolization

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 539-545

  Sze, Daniel Y ^a   Kao, Jeffrey S ^a   Frisoli, Joan K ^a   McCallum, Stuart W ^a   Kennedy II, William A ^a   Razavi, Mahmood K ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENBUCRILATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; ILIAC VEIN; INGUINAL CANAL; KIDNEY VEIN; MALE; PELVIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCINTIPHLEBOGRAPHY; THERAPY EFFECT; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VARICOCELE; VEIN BLOOD FLOW;

EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; ENBUCRILATE; HUMANS; MALE; PHLEBOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERMATIC CORD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICOCELE; VEINS;

EID: 41049101196     PISSN: 10510443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvir.2007.11.009     Document Type: Article

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