Risks and Complications of Vasectomy

Urologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 331-336

  Adams, Christopher E ^a   Wald, Moshe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hematoma; Orchitis; Postoperative complications; Reproductive; Sterilization; Vasectomy; Wound infection

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BUPIVACAINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; SPERM ANTIBODY; STEROID;

ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; CHRONIC SCROTAL PAIN; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CRYOTHERAPY; DENERVATION; EPIDIDYMITIS; GRANULOMA; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; IMMUNE COMPLEX DISEASE; MALE STERILIZATION; MALE STERILIZATION REVERSAL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTVASECTOMY PAIN SYNDROME; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SCROTAL PAIN; SPERM GRANULOMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT FAILURE; UNWANTED PREGNANCY; VASECTOMY;

FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRANULOMA; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TREATMENT FAILURE; VASECTOMY;

EID: 67651096214     PISSN: 00940143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ucl.2009.05.009     Document Type: Review

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