Microsurgical treatment of persistent or recurrent varicocele

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 718-722

  Grober, Ethan D ^a   Chan, Peter T K ^b   Zini, Armand ^a   Goldstein, Marc ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b C and EN   (United States)

Author keywords

male infertility; microsurgery; recurrence; Varicocele; varicocelectomy

Indexed keywords

HORMONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EJACULATION; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOMA; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYDROCELE; INGUINAL REGION; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL RECORD; MICROSURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREGNANCY RATE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TESTIS ATROPHY; TESTIS SIZE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URBAN AREA; VARICOCELE; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 4544292642     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2004.03.028     Document Type: Article

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