Does varicocele grade determine extent of alteration to spermatogenesis in adolescents?

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1769-1773

  Mori, Marcos Mitsuyoshi ^a   Bertolla, Ricardo Pimenta ^a   Fraietta, Renato ^a   Ortiz, Valdemar ^a   Cedenho, Agnaldo Pereira ^a  

^a Human Reproduction Section   (Brazil)

Author keywords

adolescent; semen analysis; testicular volume; Varicocele

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EJACULATION; HUMAN; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; PALPATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SCHOOL; SCROTUM; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS FUNCTION; TESTIS SIZE; VARICOCELE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; CELL SHAPE; EJACULATION; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS; VARICOCELE;

EID: 55149089276     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.09.052     Document Type: Article

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