Vasectomy surgical techniques: A systematic review

BMC Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Labrecque, Michel ^a   Dufresne, Caroline ^a   Barone, Mark A ^b   St Hilaire, Karine ^a  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ENGENDERHEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEEDING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTRACEPTION; DATA ANALYSIS; EMBASE; EXCISION; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INCISION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LIGATION; MALE; MEDLINE; METHODOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VAS DEFERENS; VASECTOMY;

HUMANS; LIGATION; MALE; VASECTOMY;

EID: 4243100632     PISSN: 17417015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-2-21     Document Type: Review

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