Comparison of Prevalence of Varicocele in First-Degree Relatives of Patients with Varicocele and Male Kidney Donors

Urology

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 666-668

  Mokhtari, Gholamreza ^a   Pourreza, Farshid ^a   Falahatkar, Siavash ^a   Kamran, Alireza Noshad ^a   Jamali, Maryam ^a  

^a GUILAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; KIDNEY DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; VARICOCELE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; IRAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; TISSUE DONORS; VARICOCELE;

EID: 41149165623     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2007.11.116     Document Type: Article

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