Organ-Sparing Microsurgical Resection of Incidental Testicular Tumors Plus Microdissection for Sperm Extraction and Cryopreservation in Azoospermic Patients: Surgical Aspects and Technical Refinements

Urology

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 887-891

  Hallak, Jorge ^a,b   Cocuzza, Marcello ^a,b   Sarkis, Alvaro S ^b   Athayde, Kelly S ^a   Cerri, Giovanni G ^a,b   Srougi, Miguel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Syrian Lebanese Hospital   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY CLAMP; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CRYOPRESERVATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; FROZEN SECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENTAL FINDING; INGUINAL REGION; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MECHANICAL PROBE; MICROSURGICAL EPIDIDYMAL SPERM ASPIRATION; MICROVASCULAR ISCHEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; SEMINOMA; SKIN INCISION; SPERMATIC CORD; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TESTICULAR SPERM EXTRACTION; TESTIS BIOPSY; TESTIS BLOOD FLOW; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUNICA ALBUGINEA;

ADULT; AZOOSPERMIA; CRYOPRESERVATION; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MALE;

EID: 63149092216     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2008.08.510     Document Type: Article

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