Improvement of seminal parameters and pregnancy rates after antegrade sclerotherapy of internal spermatic veins

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1085-1089

  Galfano, Antonio ^a   Novara, Giacomo ^a   Iafrate, Massimo ^a   De Marco, Vincenzo ^a   Cosentino, Marco ^a   D'Elia, Carolina ^a   Artibani, Walter ^a   Ficarra, Vincenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

antegrade scrotal sclerotherapy; pregnancy rate; semen analysis; Varicocele

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLEROTHERAPY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATIC VEIN; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICOCELE;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; SCLEROTHERAPY; SEMEN; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATIC CORD; VARICOCELE; VEINS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 62949206620     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.01.040     Document Type: Article

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