Putative Health Risks Associated with Vasectomy

Urologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 337-345

  Köhler, Tobias S ^a   Fazili, Anees A ^b   Brannigan, Robert E ^b  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Health risks; Primary progressive aphasia; Prostate cancer; Vasectomy; Vasectomy complications

Indexed keywords

SPERM ANTIBODY;

ARTERY DILATATION; ARTERY DISEASE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RISK; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DNA FRAGMENTATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HEALTH HAZARD; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE COMPLEX DISEASE; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE STERILITY; MALE STERILIZATION; MASCULINITY; MORPHOLOGY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT SAFETY; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPERMATOGENESIS; SURGICAL RISK; TESTIS CANCER; VASECTOMY;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DEPRESSION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; VASECTOMY;

EID: 67749104671     PISSN: 00940143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ucl.2009.05.004     Document Type: Review

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