Prevalence of cysts in seminal tract and abnormal semen parameters in patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 790-793

  Torra, Roser ^a   Sarquella, Joaquim ^a   Calabia, Jordi ^a   Martí, Jordi ^a   Ars, Elisabet ^a   Fernández Llama, Patricia ^a   Ballarin, Jose ^a  

^a FUNDACIÓ PUIGVERT   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHENOSPERMIA; CYST; CYTOLOGY; ECHOGRAPHY; GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; HUMAN; KIDNEY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MALE INFERTILITY; PATHOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE; RISK FACTOR; SEMINAL VESICLE; SPERM; SPERMATOCELE; SPERMATOZOON; TESTIS;

ADULT; ASTHENOZOOSPERMIA; CYSTS; GENITAL DISEASES, MALE; GENITALIA, MALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY, AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATE; RISK FACTORS; SEMEN; SEMINAL VESICLES; SPERMATOCELE; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

EID: 44649147902     PISSN: 15559041     EISSN: 1555905X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2215/CJN.05311107     Document Type: Article

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