Embolization of varicocles: Pretreatment sperm motility predicts later pregnancy in partners of infertile men

Radiology

Volumn 248, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 540-549

  Flacke, Sebastian ^a,b   Schuster, Michael ^a   Kovacs, Attila ^a   Von Falkenhausen, Marcus ^a   Strunk, Holger M ^a   Haidl, Gerhard ^a   Schild, Hans H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DICLOFENAC; IOPAMIDOL; POLIDOCANOL; CONTRAST MEDIUM; MACROGOL DERIVATIVE; SCLEROSING AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; COIL EMBOLIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLEROTHERAPY; SPERMATIC VEIN; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICOCELE; ADOLESCENT; FEMALE; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PREGNANCY; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONTRAST MEDIA; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHLEBOGRAPHY; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; SCLEROSING SOLUTIONS; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VARICOCELE;

EID: 49049089385     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2482071675     Document Type: Article

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