Preoperative and postoperative seminal nitric oxide levels in patients with infertile varicocele

Archivio Italiano di Urologia e Andrologia

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 248-250

  Özbek, Emin ^a   Ilbey, Y Yusuf Özlem ^a   Şimşek, Abdulmuttalip ^a   Cekmen, Mustafa ^b   Balbay, M Derya ^c  

^a Vakif Gureba Research and Education Hospital   (Turkey)

^b KOCAELI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c ATATURK TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Infertility; Nitric oxide; Seminal fluid; Varicocele

Indexed keywords

NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMINAL PLASMA; SEMINAL VESICLE DISEASE; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; VARICOCELE;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; NITRIC OXIDE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; SEMEN; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM COUNT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VARICOCELE;

EID: 76149093903     PISSN: 11243562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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