Effect of Infertility Duration on Postvaricocelectomy Sperm Counts and Pregnancy Rates

Urology

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 767-771

  Zorba, Unal O ^a   Sanli, Oner M ^a   Tezer, Murat ^a   Erdemir, Fikret ^a   Shavakhabov, Shavkat ^a   Kadioglu, Ates ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM SURGERY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARTHENOGENESIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREGNANCY RATE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VARICOCELE; VARICOCELECTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERM COUNT; TIME FACTORS; VARICOCELE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 63149103432     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2008.06.014     Document Type: Article

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