Surgery or embolisation for varicoceles in subfertile men

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn , Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Evers, Johannes L H ^a   Collins, John ^b   Clarke, Jane ^c  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

*Embolization, therapeutic; Female; Humans; Infertility, male etiology; surgery; *therapy ; Male; Outcome assessment (health care); Pregnancy; Pregnancy rate; Randomized controlled trials as topic; Varicocele complications; surgery; *therapy

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COCHRANE LIBRARY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCEPTION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; EMBASE; HUMAN; LIVE BIRTH; MALE SUBFERTILITY; MEDLINE; META ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PALPATION; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PREGNANCY RATE; REVIEW; SPERMATIC VEIN; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SUBFERTILITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THERAPY DELAY; THERAPY EFFECT; THERMOGRAPHY; VARICOCELE; VEIN LIGATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 67649719302     PISSN: 1469493X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD000479.pub4     Document Type: Review

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