Natural history of varicocele management in the era of intracytoplasmic sperm injection

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2251-2256

  Zini, Armand ^a   Boman, Jason ^a   Baazeem, Abdulaziz ^a   Jarvi, Keith ^b   Libman, Jamie ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

assisted reproduction; Male infertility; natural history; sperm concentration; sperm motility; varicocele; varicocelectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSURGERY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; VARICOCELE; VARICOCELECTOMY;

ADULT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERM COUNT; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERM MOTILITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MALE; VARICOCELE;

EID: 55149085400     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.10.071     Document Type: Article

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