Male factor infertility: Innovations in varicocele surgery

Nature Reviews Urology

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 470-471

  Marmar, Joel ^a  

^a RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYDROCELE; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TESTIS ATROPHY; VARICOCELE;

HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MALE; VARICOCELE;

EID: 70349158664     PISSN: 17594812     EISSN: 17594820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrurol.2009.143     Document Type: Article

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